Joe Biden’s Confidence in Addressing World Security Issue: An Interpersonal Analysis of Political Discourse
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1311.17Keywords:
appraisal, probability, political discourseAbstract
This study aimed to discover President Joe Biden's confidence level and the realization of probability in his speech. A qualitative content analysis approach was conducted in this research. The data of this research were the speeches of Joe Biden on several occasions accessed from YouTube. Furthermore, the data were transcribed and then analyzed using probability theory. Therefore, the analysis result indicated that Joe Biden has high confidence. This result can be observed through his speech that he tends to use a high degree of probability in stating his plans, promises, and predictions of the policies he will implement. The probabilities used by Joe Biden also tend to vary in forms such as modal verbs, modal verb phrases, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.appraisal
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