Language Horizon: Journal of Language Studies
Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Volume 6 tahun 2018

LEXICAL RELATION ANALYSIS REFERRING TO MUSLIMS ON DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH; BAN ALL MUSLIMS TRAVEL TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

YAQIN, HUSNUL (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jan 2018

Abstract

Abstract This research reviews Donald Trump?s dictions which refer to Muslims in his campaign speech. He keeps arguing that terrorism attacks in America are mostly performed by Muslims which leads to be one of his campaign concerns on banning Muslims travel to America. It becomes issue of debate over the world since the policy program hits sentimental field. Thus, knowing how the tight-loose expression level of them turns to be the interest of this study. The study focuses on semantic relation theory by Riemer and uses qualitative method to reveal the goal. There are various lexical relation terms arise over Donald Trump?s dictions to refer Muslims. They provide variant meanings which can be variation terms to use by speaker. Those terms come over four lexical relations, Antonym, Synonym, Meronym and Hyponym. Donald Trump tended to use tighter meaning words to address Muslims. Hyponymy covers more semantic components than others on componential analysis which indicates looser meaning among others. While in turn, Donald Trump should not use antonymy form to avoid misunderstanding on his audiences. It also indicates tighter meaning since it mostly does not cover any component.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

language-horizon

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Language Horizon is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research articles that explore a wide range of topics related to language and communication, with a particular emphasis on: Linguistics Phonetics and Phonology Morphology and Syntax Semantics and ...