Lia Marina : An Analysis Of Action And Reaction In Three Selected George Walker Bush’s Speeches: A Text Analysis, 2010.
1.2 Problems of Analysis
In this thesis, there are some problems that appeared and need to be answered. The problems are:
1. What is the most dominant action in three selected Bush’s speeches?
2. What is the most dominant reaction in three selected Bush’s speeches?
3. What are the register variables found in the three selected Bush’s speeches?
1.3 The Objectives of Analysis
Dealing with the analysis of action and reaction in three selected Bush’s speeches, the objectives of the analysis of this thesis are:
1. To find out the most dominant action in three selected Bush’s speeches.
2. To find out the most dominant reaction in three selected Bush’s speeches.
3. To find out the register variables in the three selected Bush’s speeches.
1.4 Scope of Analysis
The analysis only focuses on action and reaction in three Bush’s speeches. They are the text of George Bush’s speech to a joint session of Congress and the
nation in September 20
th
, 2001, the text of George Bush’s speech to the Nation on the Economic Crisis in September 24
th
, 2008, and the text of George Bush’s speech held in United Nations Headquarters in September 22
nd
, 2008,. These speeches are chosen randomly from the internet. Three speeches are more enough to fulfill the data in
searching the most dominant action and the most dominant reaction.
Lia Marina : An Analysis Of Action And Reaction In Three Selected George Walker Bush’s Speeches: A Text Analysis, 2010.
1.5 Significances of Analysis
The findings of this thesis are expected to help the language learners of Discourse Analysis to find out action and reaction, and also register in discourse
especially speeches. This thesis can also be used as one of the reference of analyzing action and reaction in speech by using SFL Theory of Halliday. And hopefully, this
thesis will be useful for the readers who are interested in studying action and reaction, in which it can help them to master English and to understand discourse and analysis
of action and reaction better.
Lia Marina : An Analysis Of Action And Reaction In Three Selected George Walker Bush’s Speeches: A Text Analysis, 2010.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
