The Interpretation of Discourse Markers in Trump’s Political Speeches

Abstract

The purpose is to investigate the role of discourse markers in Trump’s speeches in influencing the audience. The main issue raised in this research is the source of the impact of Trump’s language in his speeches on both U.S citizens and international community. The research tackles one aspect from many aspects that revealed this influence which is the function of discourse markers. To raise this research, a qualitativeresearch design has been adopted where the observation was the method that has been applied in a descriptive framework. The sample was collected from several political speeches: ‘How Donald Trump answers a question 2017’ from ‘The Washington Post’. Then, the other sample was from an interview with New York Times reporters. Hence, data analysis reveals the validation of the hypothesis which says that the function of DMs mentioned in this study research have a deep impact on the interpretation of the meaning behind their use. The findings of this study obtained from the analysis of the samples mentioned which reveals that the use of Donald Trump discourse markers in his speeches has a great influence on the audience. The study confirmed that Trump has a linguistic capacities in influencing people in general. As a result, this impact leads Donald Trump to be as the mostinfluentialpresident of United States in the history of America according to Washington Post.