The Implication Analysis of Interpersonal Metafunction in Donald Trump's Victory Speech

Abstract

This study tries to analyze Donald Trump's Victory Speech from the Interpersonal Metafunction aspect. This paper is going to examine the following implications of speech: (a) The positive declarative sentences. (b) The common uses of the pronouns “we”, "I", "you", "it" and also the style of “we”-“you”-“we” respectively. (c) The modal verbal "will", "can" and "must". However, the present study aims to help readers understand, evaluate and analyze the speech according to its suitability which in turn gives the readers some instructions to make better speeches. In the final part of the study, the findings and discussion of this paper will be presented. The model of study is Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (1970).