Power relation in Donald Trump's interview sections: critical discourse analysis

This thesis investigates about power relation in Donald Trump’s selected interview videos using Fairclough’s Power in Discourse theory that focused in the use of pronoun and instrumental devices of achieving power in discourse. The method of this research is qualitative analysis descriptive since this present research describes and analyzes the data. The writer selected three interview videos as the data of the research. This research has two questions. First is about kind of power relation implied in Donald Trump utterances when he is doing the interview. The second question is about the way the participant in the interview controls the contribution of another participant. This study aim to explore power relation reflected in Trump’s interview sections. Moreover by this research, the writer knows how the interview participants reflected power relation in conversation. Therefore, this research tries to answer the kind of power relation and the way power relation is exercised. As the result, the writer finds equal and unequal power relation reflected in Donald Trump’s utterances. The next result, the writer finds the way the participant of interview sections controls the contribution of another participant by using Fairclough’s instrumental device for achieving power in discourse which are interruption, enforcing explicitness, controlling topic and formulation.