THE ANALYSIS OF ANAPHORA AND CATAPHORA FOUND ON OBAMA’S SPEECH INDONESIA’S EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD

Abstract

This study entitled The Analysis Of Anaphora And Cataphora Found On Obama’s Speech Indonesia’s Example To The World. This study using Ruslan Mitkov’s theory with six classifications, which are pronominal, lexical noun phrase, noun, verb, adverb, and zero anaphoric to analyze anaphora reference and Yule’s theory to analyze cataphora reference. The writer uses descriptive qualitative as the research method of the analysis. The objectives is to analyze types of anaphoric reference found in Obama‘s speech and the referent of anaphora and cataphora refered to Obama‘s speech. The findings showed that anaphora referents is most found than cataphora and the types of anaphora reference like pronominal anaphoric, lexical noun phrase, noun anaphoric, verb anaphoric, adverb anaphoric and zero anaphoric are used in Obama‘s speech Indonesia’s example to the world. In this study, the use of pronominal anaphoric is the most widespread type of anaphoric used in the speech that consist all third person personal, possessive, and the following demonstrative and relative pronoun.