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1.2. The Scope of the Study

This study is focused on appraisal in the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of United States of America, i.e. George Herbert Walker Bush or, George Bush Senior, William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush or, George Bush Junior, and Barack Hussein Obama. The appraisal that is going to be studied is the Attitude aspects of Appraisal in the inaugural addresses. Specifically the study addresses only the verbal texts, focusing only on the attitude elements in the texts; with little reference to non-verbal contexts in passage.

1.3. The Problems of the Study

This study focuses on the Appraisals elements that are classified in the Attitude sub-system of the Appraisal Theory. This is to say that of the three sub- systems of Appraisal Theory i.e. Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation; the writer picks only the Attitude sub-system. This is done not only for the purpose of avoiding the tendency of doing a tedious research, but also because of what has been explained above. As mentioned above, the writer tries to uncover the emotional elements in the inaugural texts to prove whether the common presumption that says political speeches is objective and devoid of emotional elements is true. To do this, it is only correct to choose to employ the sub-system of Appraisal Theory that deals with feeling: Attitude. p d f Machine I s a pdf w r it e r t ha t pr oduce s qua lit y PD F file s w it h e a se Produce quality PDF files in seconds and preserve the integrity of your original docum ents. Com patible across nearly all Windows platform s, if you can print from a windows application you can use pdfMachine. Get yours now Universitas Sumatera Utara To define the problem discussed in this thesis, the writer addresses the following questions: 1. What are the Affect elements in the Inaugural Address texts? 2. What are the Judgement elements in the Inaugural Address texts? 3. What are the Appreciation elements in the Inaugural Address texts? 4. How do the attitudinal resources function to convey the messages of the presidents?

1.4. The Objectives of the Study

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