Abstract
Language in politics is directed towards the achievement of political objectives, that is gaining power or maintaining power. The language of the politicians is aiming to attract the attention of voters which can be seen in various campaign media, such as banners, advertisements, social media, and excerpts from interviews in the mass media. This research is descriptive research. This research describes the choice of words spoken by the political elite in representing their power. The data in this study are Donald Trump's remarks relating to power. The data source in this study is the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results of this study found that the choice of words used by Donald Trump is the use of sentence structures in the form of modal lexical.
Highlights
Language is a communication tool or tool which is used to convey thoughts and feelings to others
Language is seen as the main means of politics and through the use of language is reflected in how power is used
Based on several definitions above, it can be said that corpus linguistics is often referred to as a representation of the actual use of language from a society
Summary
Language is a communication tool or tool which is used to convey thoughts and feelings to others. According to Raharjo (2007) theoretically political discourse refers to texts which contain ideological meanings relating to the dominance or power relations of one group / class or an institution over groups / classes or other institutions. Based on several definitions above, it can be said that corpus linguistics is often referred to as a representation of the actual use of language from a society This is in line with what was stated by Tognini-Bonelli (2010). The linguists in the period of 1940s to 1950s, (Brown, 2007: 9) stated that the method of descriptive qualitative is the idea or method that language can be dismantaled into pieces or these little units are scientifically and logically interpreted, differentiated, and adjusted into forms of the whole This method explains the research that carried out based on the facts that are available or based on realities. The distributional analysis technique that is used in this study are the technique of fading (deletion), and the technique of replacement (substitution), as well as the technique of moving elements (permutation)
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