Syntactic Analysis of Idiomatic Phrases in Michelle Obama’s Final Speech as the First Lady

Niswati, Tasfiatun (2018) Syntactic Analysis of Idiomatic Phrases in Michelle Obama’s Final Speech as the First Lady. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

The objectives of the study are: (1) to find out the idiomatic phrases in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady. (2) to find out the patterns of the idiomatic phrases have been found in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady. (3) to identify the meanings of the idiomatic phrases in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady. The problems of the study are: (1) what are the idiomatic phrases in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady? (2) what are the patterns of the idiomatic phrases have been found in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady? (3) what are the meanings of the idiomatic phrases in Michelle Obama’s final speech as the first lady? This study used descriptive qualitative approach methodology as the research design. The writer used a speech for the primary data. The results of this study are: (1) the writer has found five idiomatic phrases in the speech. (2) the two of idiomatic phrases are in the form of complete sentence, the two others are in form of verb phrase, and the other one is in form of noun phrase. (3) all of the idiomatic phrases have their own meaning that are different from their lexically meaning. Keywords: idiomatic phrases, the patterns of idiomatic phrases, the meaning of idiomatic, and speech.

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