THEME AND RHEME ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP’ SPEECH ON IMMIGRATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE TRANSCRIPT

Abstract

This research attempted to know the types of Theme and rheme in the Donald Trump’speech on immigration and democratic response transcript. Reason of Donald Trump’ speech because Donald Trump has several advantages, among others, when talking about the issue of unemployment is always delivered on fire. Trump is considered to be siding with everyone. Especially when it comes to the US losses itself caused by globalization. The descriptive qualitative research is a procedure of research, in which the collected data won’t be created by statistic procedure. The researcher selected the data which were considered to be typical of the wider population. The data of this thesis was analyzed by using some steps, they are segmenting the sentences into clause, identifying the theme and rheme for each clause, determining the type of theme and rheme for each clause, and drawing conclusion. After analyzing the data of the Transcript of Donald Trump’s speech on immigration and democratic response. There were found 132 clauses. As a result, the researcher concludes that from 132 clauses, there were 73 clauses belong to topical theme. Topical theme functions to emphasize the subject that this subject was the main goal of the speech transcript. Then, the second was textual theme with 51 themes. In this textual theme, the editorial’s writer employed some conjunctions to connected the clauses one another such as but, and, since, because, and after. The last was interpersonal theme which is the least number with 8. There are three benefits of this study, for the teacher will contribute the insight, information, or evaluation for the writing subject which highlights the whole information or utterance to connect cohesively, for the researcher will be the ingredients or reference for further research that will be conducting in other time, for the pedagogical contribution, the researcher hopes textual meaning, theme-rheme device as the effective tool to analyze the content of text, and it will giving the good experience for the students.