TRANSITIVITY PROCESS OF DONALD TRUMP’S POLITICAL SPEECH

The purpose of this study are; 1) To describe the transitivity process illustrated in
Donald Trump’s Speech campaign; 2) To elaborate how Donald Trump realizes his
political motivations on his speech and 3) To explain why Donald Trump reflects his
political motivation on the way he does. This study carried out Donald Trump’s
speech that delivered in Washington D.C 2017. The data were taken from Donald
Trumps speech transcript that downloaded from internet and analyzed use Critical
Discourse Analysis by Fairclough model and Thematic approach. Based on the
result of data analysis, it is found that the transitivity processes illustrated in Donald
Trumps political Speech are 6 types. They are material process, relational process,
mental process, verbal process, existential process and behavioral process and from
all the processes the dominantly used is material process. It shows the speaker
ambition is implicated on the speech. it can be realized that one of the notable
functions of this process refers to what the president will do in the future. It found
also that Donald Trump bringing up three themes on his speech, they are: being unity,
American’s issue, and citizen involvement. The reason Trump to realized those
themes are because he tends to construct the concept of conveying, promising, and
persuading is effective approach on speech to gain the big attention and support from
people