Lexical Cohesion Used In Donald Trump’s Campaign Speech

The title of this research is "Lexical Cohesion Used in Donald Trump's Campaign Speeches". Lexical cohesion is one of the most important tools for bringing text together. Lexical cohesion is grouped into five types. Due to the large number of types, research on lexical cohesion needs to be carried out and the problems to be studied are: the types and uses of the most common types found in Donald Trump's campaign speeches. The theory used is the theory of lexical cohesion types taken from Cohesion in English by Halliday and Hassan (1976). This study uses four of Donald Trump's speeches as data sources. Data collection is carried out in the form of library research, which searches for and downloads data sources and then reads the relevant data included in it. All data is grouped into the appropriate type group. The data that has been collected is analyzed descriptively and frequency. The results of the study show that five types of lexical cohesion are found in Donald Trump's campaign speeches. The five types of lexical cohesion found are repetition, synonym, superordinate, general words, and collocation. The mostly type of lexical cohesion found is repetition.

本研究的标题为《唐纳德·特朗普竞选演讲中的词汇衔接（Lexical Cohesion）》。词汇衔接是实现文本连贯的核心手段之一，可划分为五大类别。鉴于其类型丰富多样，现有相关研究仍有待深化，本研究拟探讨的核心问题为：唐纳德·特朗普竞选演讲中出现的最常见词汇衔接类型及其使用情况。本研究采用的理论框架源自韩礼德与哈桑（Halliday & Hassan, 1976）在《英语的衔接（Cohesion in English）》一书中提出的词汇衔接类型理论。本研究以唐纳德·特朗普的四篇演讲作为数据源。数据采集采用文献研究法：通过检索、下载相关数据源并读取其中的有效内容完成数据收集。所有采集到的数据均被归类至适配的词汇衔接类型组别中。本研究对已收集的数据采用描述性分析与频次分析法展开研究。研究结果显示，唐纳德·特朗普的竞选演讲中共存在五类词汇衔接，分别为重复（repetition）、同义词（synonym）、上义词（superordinate）、概括词（general words）以及搭配（collocation），其中使用频次最高的词汇衔接类型为重复。