Presupposition On The Second 2012 American Presidential Debate Between Barrack Obama And Mitt Romney

Main Author: Dhimas Nopembri
Format: Bachelors
Terbitan: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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  • This thesis is aimed at knowing the presupposition in 2012 American Presidential Debate between Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney based Yule?s presupposition theory. The writer uses the descriptive qualitative method to describe, identify and analyze conversation between Obama and Romney to find presupposition which emerges from the debate. The writer analyzes this research through several steps. As the first step, the writer watche the presidential debate on you tube site. The second step, the writer analyzed the transcript of the debate as the unit of analysis. The method in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The writer also collected the data which indicate the existence of presupposition. The last, the compiled data was analyzed through discourse analysis. From this research, the writer found several statements in the conversation of the debate that indicate the existence of presupposition. The presupposition cimes out when the speakers have assumption about particular issue on their mind. What is presupposed, then is classified into their own types.