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THE APPRAISAL ANALYSIS OF JOE BIDEN'S WINNING SPEECH IN THE WASHINGTON POST
I. INTRODUCTION Analyzing Political Discourse is considered to be a knowledgeable field which pays attention to study political communication within the society, whether by text, discourse, images, signs, symbols or other marks (Bolinaga, 2017). It aims to answer some specific questions, including "how political discourse works? And how it performs its functions, which are often related to the acquisition, legitimization, and retention of power?" "Analyzing Political Discourse focuses on analyzing its linguistic structure, performance, distribution, reception, influence, and responsiveness" (Hamood, 2019). Political discourse causes a large attendance, due to their influence on economic, cultural and societal (Abdulameer and Noor, 2019). As Anggraini (2018) states that Analyzing Political Discourse is a Abstract-The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze winning speech by US President Biden on, November 7, 2020 in the presidential American elections, by the Appraisal System Analysis. The discourse analysis was applied by breaking down the discourse into several sentences and analyzing them to find out the Appraisal Devices and the types of Attitudes used. From the data Analyzing, it could be inferred that the speech employed three kinds of Attitudes; Affect, Judgment, Appreciation. These can be traced in 46 clauses which contained 20 for affects, 10 for judgments, and 16 for appreciations. The findings reveal that affect is most commonly used by Biden. On the other hand, he mostly used positive sentences within explicit attitude in The Washington post. On the other hand, he called to unity of America and rebuild the relations with world and promised America for better life and faced the COIVED 19 at the same time.
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