Hamdanur, Roobby and Pulungan, Anni Holila and Zainuddin (2018) Modality as Hedging Device in the US Presidential Election Debate. In: Proceedings of The 3rd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL), 03-04 October 2018, Emerald Garden Hotel, Medan City, North Sumatera, Indonesia.
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Abstract
Modality is the speaker’s judgments of probabilities,
or the obligation involved in what he/she is saying. Modality can be used as hedging devices. The purpose of this study is to
analyze and describe the types and realization of modality as
hedging device in the US presidential election debate between
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The descriptive qualitative
method was implemented in this study. The source of data was
the first presidential election debate between Donald Trump and
Hillary Clinton. The data were the utterances using modality as
hedging device uttered by the two presidential candidates,
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The finding revealed that
epistemic modality was the most dominant modality as hedging
device in the presidential election debate and modal auxiliary will and would were mostly found in the debate. It means that the politicians tend to use hedging device as evasive and defensive strategy to distance their claim to reality.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Program Pasca Sarjana |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Yuni Chairani |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2019 07:05 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2019 02:15 |
| URI: | https://digilib.unimed.ac.id/id/eprint/35352 |
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