METAPHOR OF MODALITY IN DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH IN UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017

This Study investigates modality used by Donald Trump in his speech
in United Nations General Assembly 2017. Modality is expressed as the
speakers’s judgment of the Obligation, or probabilities involved what is
saying. The speech was conveyed by Donal Trump as the representative
of America in United Nations General Assembly 2017. Three objectives
of the study are the describtion of kinds of the modality used on Donald
Trump’s speech in United Nations General Assembly, the analyze of
realization of modality and the describtion of the reasons of modality.the
data were obtained from Donal Trump’s speech. The speech transcription
was analyzed by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory. The
Occurences of modality were qualitatively analyzed by converting them
into persentages to determine the proportions namely (i) modalization and
(ii) modulation. The findings indicates that Modulation (74.63 %) and
modalization was (25.38%). Modulation are divided into two sub
categories, namely obligation and inclination and modalization are
dividied in two categories too namely probability and usuality. The scale
of modality is pointed to high, medium, and low value. This study found
the dominant value is Medium Modulation with ( 38.80 %). The findings
furthur show that Donal Trump led the dominan use of modulation of
obligation and modalization of probability. Because the speaker in here did
not only expressing his obligation but also also express the ideas. The
study shows the speaker set the ideas of persuasive speech about
obligation and probability concerning the future event which is they made .