Donald Trump’s Vocabulary Selection Strategy in a Public Speech for the First Time Since Covid-19 Diagnosis

Abstract

This study applied a critical discourse analysis approach to Donald Trump's speech at his first public event since being diagnosed with Covid-19. The objective of this research is to describe the vocabulary selection strategy used by Donald Trump in his first public speech since being diagnosed with Covid-19. This study is a descriptive qualitative study. Documentation is a data collection technique. The research data came from Donald Trump's speech at the first public event since Covid-19 was diagnosed on October 10, 2020. This study found three types of vocabulary for classifying, four types of vocabulary for limiting views, three types of vocabulary for discourse battle, and three types of vocabulary for marginalization.