Abstract
The aim of this research is to analyse a semantic analysis of phrasal verbs produced by Hillary Clinton in her commencement speech. The writer focused on the implied meanings and the phrasal verbs used by Hillary Clinton during her speech at Wellesley College in 2017. In this analysis, the writer used a qualitative descriptive method and a library research technique to collect the data. In analysing the implied meanings of phrasal verbs, the writer applied Geoffrey Leech’s theory. According to the result, the writer found that there were 10 or 25% phrasal verbs with conceptual meaning, 4 or 10% phrasal verbs with connotative meaning, 16 or 39% phrasal verbs with affective meaning, 7 or 17% phrasal verbs with social meaning, and 3 or 9% with thematic meaning. Therefore, the most dominant meaning in phrasal verbs produced by Hillary Clinton was affective meaning. Meanwhile, in analysing the phrasal verbs, the writer used the theory from Larsen-Freeman and Celce-Murcia. There were three types of phrasal verbs categorized into literal phrasal verbs, aspectual phrasal verbs, and idiomatic phrasal verbs. It can be concluded that there were 17 or 42% literal phrasal verbs, 10 or 25% aspectual phrasal verbs, and 13 or 33% idiomatic phrasal verbs. Thus, the most frequent type of phrasal verbs used during the speech were literal phrasal verbs.
Highlights
Language is a system of communication which is largely employed by humans to persuade, convince, criticize, inform and influence from one to another either by written or spoken language
According to the result from the types of phrasal verbs related to the semantic context, most of the phrasal verbs used by Hillary Clinton are literal phrasal verbs which are 17 or 42,5%
According to the results, the writer can conclude that there were many phrasal verbs produced by Hillary Clinton in her commencement speech at Wellesley College in 2017
Summary
Language is a system of communication which is largely employed by humans to persuade, convince, criticize, inform and influence from one to another either by written or spoken language. It is said that humans have disparate methods to utter their intention or to convey their feelings through a language; the way humans communicate to deliver information and aim lead to the distinction of the way animals do. Regarding the use of it and the production of it to be well-organized and clearly understood, linguistics plays an immense role and has been assumed as the core of language. The product of linguistics is an objective, systematic, and explicit account of (some aspect of) language.”. Linguistics centralizes its concern by describing language in all aspects with the perception as descriptive, not prescriptive since it accentuates the spoken language primarily rather than written language. Linguistics, in particular, perceives what is said instead of what ought to be said as it follows a natural language processed by humans; and the target is on expressing what humans feel rather than what humans plan to feel
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