Discourse Structure In President Donald Trump's Speech On Since Covid-19 Diagnosis

Abstract

This research concerns the analysis of discourse structure in President Donald Trump's speech on the first event since Covid-19 diagnosis. This reserach objective is to find out discourse structure in President Donald Trump's speech on the first event since Covid-19 diagnosis. This analysis use descriptive method because this research describe discourse structure. The data were taken from the transcipt of President Donald Trump's speech on the first event since Covid-19 diagnosis. The researcher uses document and records method to gather the data which is by taking note of discourse structure appeared in President Donald Trump's speech, then classifying them by their types and analyzing the data. The researcher found there are 1 poem datum, 4 narration data, 2 agon data, 5 refutation data, 2 agon data, and 4 peroration data. It can be concluded that Donald Trump made an effort to image himself as a leader who is proficient in using language through the discourse structure he uses in his speeches at the first public event since the Covid-19 diagnosis.