HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE

The 2016 US Presidential Election has become world’ great issue since the politician’s speech is mainly concerned with persuading or making the listeners believe with what they are saying. It is a concession speech of Hillary Clinton’s that brings out more inspirations to the public than the value o...

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Main Authors: Khairunnisa Khairunnisa, Puji Sri Rahayu, Saifuddin Ahmad Husin
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Language:English
Published: English Department of Antasari State Islamic University 2018-01-01
Series:LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
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Online Access:https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1950
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Puji Sri Rahayu
Saifuddin Ahmad Husin
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description The 2016 US Presidential Election has become world’ great issue since the politician’s speech is mainly concerned with persuading or making the listeners believe with what they are saying. It is a concession speech of Hillary Clinton’s that brings out more inspirations to the public than the value of the failure itself.  Based on that phenomenon, the researcher was interested in analyzing Hillary Clinton’s concession speech by investigating the role of language in communication analysis through speech acts based on the theory of J.L Austin-Searle and genre analysis The researcher decided to raise the constructivism analysis of discourse which analyzes the context behind the languages used in the forms of speech. The results showed that its speech acts types according to its locutionary acts analysis : Declarative (12),  Imperative (12), illocutionary acts: Representatives (11), Commisives (3), Directives (9), Declaratives (3), and Expressives (9), and variety of perlocutionary acts (to get people to know, do something, express feeling, and praise). This expository speech mostly characterized by the appreciation and encouragement to the public (a type of speech/discourse which called persuasive-argumentative) and she spoke much about unity to create strong power of America. It has created good arrangement of language that showed Hillary Clinton’s power and ideology.
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spelling doaj-art-92d20080765e4927b62d7e037937ff012025-01-12T00:47:35ZengEnglish Department of Antasari State Islamic UniversityLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal2086-96062549-24542018-01-017210.18592/let.v7i2.19501408HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSEKhairunnisa Khairunnisa0Puji Sri Rahayu1Saifuddin Ahmad Husin2Antasari State Islamic UniversityA Lecturer of English Education Department at Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty of Antasari State Islamic UniversityA Lecturer of English Education Department at Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty of Antasari State Islamic UniversityThe 2016 US Presidential Election has become world’ great issue since the politician’s speech is mainly concerned with persuading or making the listeners believe with what they are saying. It is a concession speech of Hillary Clinton’s that brings out more inspirations to the public than the value of the failure itself.  Based on that phenomenon, the researcher was interested in analyzing Hillary Clinton’s concession speech by investigating the role of language in communication analysis through speech acts based on the theory of J.L Austin-Searle and genre analysis The researcher decided to raise the constructivism analysis of discourse which analyzes the context behind the languages used in the forms of speech. The results showed that its speech acts types according to its locutionary acts analysis : Declarative (12),  Imperative (12), illocutionary acts: Representatives (11), Commisives (3), Directives (9), Declaratives (3), and Expressives (9), and variety of perlocutionary acts (to get people to know, do something, express feeling, and praise). This expository speech mostly characterized by the appreciation and encouragement to the public (a type of speech/discourse which called persuasive-argumentative) and she spoke much about unity to create strong power of America. It has created good arrangement of language that showed Hillary Clinton’s power and ideology.https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1950Concession SpeechSpeech actsConstructivism of Discourse analysis
spellingShingle Khairunnisa Khairunnisa
Puji Sri Rahayu
Saifuddin Ahmad Husin
HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
Concession Speech
Speech acts
Constructivism of Discourse analysis
title HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
title_full HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
title_fullStr HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
title_full_unstemmed HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
title_short HILLARY CLINTON’S CONCESSION SPEECH : A CONSTRUCTIVISM STUDY OF DISCOURSE
title_sort hillary clinton s concession speech a constructivism study of discourse
topic Concession Speech
Speech acts
Constructivism of Discourse analysis
url https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1950
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