Abstract
This study concerns with the use of personal pronouns in political speech. The aims of this study are to find out personal pronouns used in Donald Trump’s speech and their functions. The source of data of this research is the speech by Donald trump at 74th session of the united nation general assembly. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The result shows that Donald Trump used personal pronoun I to emphasize his authority and his good qualities such as confident, share experience, and opinion. Personal pronoun you is used to refer to a specific group when he wants to separate one group from other groups. He also used you to refer to general to avoid conflict. He used personal pronoun inclusive we to involve himself with the united nation member. He used exclusive we to show his good relation with other groups in sharing responsibility. He used personal pronouns they to make him and the united nation members less responsible for other groups activities.
Highlights
Speech is one of the ways to express thoughts in spoken words
After collecting the personal pronouns in Donald Trump’s speech, the findings are presented in the tables below
The steps are analyzing the function of the types of personal pronouns used in the speech
Summary
Speech is one of the ways to express thoughts in spoken words. In the speech, the speaker can express and deliver his or her opinion, overviews, and important event (Wahyuningsih, 2018:01). One of the examples of politicians doing a speech is president of the United States, Donald John Trump (hereafter Donald Trump). Donald Trump becomes the oldest first-term president of the United States. When he was the president of the United States, he had a lot of opportunities to deliver speeches in important forums. He delivered a speech in the United Nations General Assembly forum. The United Nations general assembly is the world’s parliament, where the members are 193 sovereign nations. The United Nations general assembly can express world opinion, make recommendations to the Security Council, and elect the council’s non-permanent members.
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