Modality as Hedging Device in the US Presidential Election Debate
| Main Authors: | Hamdanur, Roobby, Pulungan, Anni Holila, Zainuddin, |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | ind |
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Universitas Negeri Medan
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://digilib.unimed.ac.id/35352/1/COVER..pdf http://digilib.unimed.ac.id/35352/2/DAFTAR%20ISI.pdf http://digilib.unimed.ac.id/35352/3/ARTICLE.pdf http://digilib.unimed.ac.id/35352/ http://aisteel2018.unimed.ac.id |
Daftar Isi:
- 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.