Modality in the Speech Texts of the Presidential Campaign of the 2024 Indonesian General Elections

The way language used is a great deal about how the idea has been shaped. This research deal with Modality in the Speech Texts of the Presidential Campaign of the 2024 Indonesian General Elections. This research was implemented using qualitative research. The researcher observed, wrote and identified the modality used in the speeches. The taken data was only the speech texts that contained modality and were organized, compressed and assembled then drawing the conclutions. The objectives of this research were to analyze and categorize the modality, to elucidate the realizations of the modality and to explain the reasons of modality realized in the speech texts. For the use of modality to convince the audiences, Anies Baswedan used modality 36 times to focus on the Politic, Prabowo Subianto used 16 times modality to focus on the Eonomy and Ganjar Pranowo used modality 17 times to focus on the Politic. As the result, the presidential candidates used modality to convince the audiences as the voters to vote them. It was found that the modulation of obligation at medium levels was the most used in the grand campaign speech and the modals were the most dominant feature found among the three candidates, Prabowo Subianto, Anies Baswedan and followed by Ganjar Pranowo.