A critical discourse analysis on Phrasal and Sentential Structures in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s political speech at The APEC CEO Summit The Asia-Pacific Century

ABSTRACT

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has become a very influential academic research activity across subjects in social, political, educational, and linguistic sciences. It scrutinizes the power relations, ideological manipulations, and hegemony used among the people manifested in texts. They, therefore, use strategies to influence other people in order their goals can be realized. It is very interesting to investigate and analyze the ways. This thesis is an attempt to explain the research problems of how president SBY, as the president of Indonesia,uses the discursive strategies of phrasal and sentential structures in the political speeches. There searcher decides to select one of his speeches at the APEC CEO summit “The Asia-Pacific Century 2011”.To answer the problems, the researcher adopts Van Dijk's CDA framework about discourse structures as macro structure, super structure, and micro structure.

The researcher, then, focuses on Micro structure especially on phrasal and sentential structures. Methodologically, the researcher employs descriptive qualitative study as her research design. The data were collected by analyzing the phrasal and sentential structures based on Van Djik’s Critical Discourse Analysis Framework. The findings reveal that SBY used Micro structural level strategies on phrasal and sentential structures of discourse to enhance the cohesion and coherence of his political speeches. In phrasal structure, he often uses noun phrase combined with articles, possessive pronouns, and adjectives. Furthermore, he frequently stimulates his audiences to think of certain time through temporal sentences. In the strategies of phrasal structures, it consists of noun phrase, adjective phrase, and verb phrase, meanwhile in the strategies of sentential structures; he chose temporal sentence, passive voice, rhetorical question, and repetition.

The researcher suggests the next researchers to study more deeply and more focus, especially about the discourse markers, rhetorical questions, passive voice, and repetition because the findings of sentential structure have more significant contribution and influence to the whole discourse. The object of research can analyze media, such as newspaper, important documents, polices of government and others.