A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON DONALD TRUMP’S IDEOLOGY ON ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND SHAM (ISIS) THROUGH HIS SPEECH

The study aims to reveal: (1) the elements of Transitivity System in Donald
Trump‘s language found in his speech on ISIS for his political campaign rally; (2)
how Donald Trump uses his language in his speech on ISIS for his political
campaign rally; and (3) why Donald Trump uses the language as the way he does
in his speech on ISIS for his political campaign rally, which is reflected through
his ideologies. The study was descriptive qualitative. The source of data for this
study is a speech about Radical Islam Terrorrism (ISIS) delivered by Donald
Trump at Youngstown State University, in Youngstown, Ohio, August 15th,
2016. The data of this study are the clauses found in the sepeech. The instrument
of this study was the the researcher himself. The data were analyzed based on
Norman Fairclough‘s (1989) model of Critical Discourse Analysis which was
combined wih Halliday‘s (1994) Transitivity System. The findings of the study
shows that: (1) there are six common processes found in the speech, namely
43.8% of material process, 32.3% of relational process which consists of 25.6%
of attributive relational process and 6.7% of identifying relational process, 11.2%
of verbal process, 10.3% of mental process, 1.5% of existential process, and 0.9%
of behavioral process; as for participants, the researcher has found 21.3% of
actor, 19.5% of goal , 12 % of carrier, 12% of attribute, and the rest participant
roles are less than 30%; as for circumstances, the researcher has found 8
circumstance types, namely 52.7% of location, 24.3% of manner, 7.7% of cause,
extent, 5% of extent, 4.7% of accompaniment, 2.7% of role, 2.3% of matter, 0.6%
of angle; (2) In convincing his audience, the way Trump uses his language in his
speech on ISIS is by signifying a sense of solidarity and cohesiveness between
him and his audience. This is shown through his use of we-groups pronoun in
high frequency which reaches 172 occurences or about 75% compared to I-groups
pronoun in describing himself and his future administration.; (3) There are three
Donald Trump‘s ideologies on ISIS found in his speech, namely: ISIS is indeed a
threat, ISIS is islamic, and ISIS potential people are immigrants. Based on the
findings, it is concluded that these ideologies triggered Donald Trump to ban
muslims to enter the United States