THE DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF PRESUPPOSITION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH AT ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE

This research used descriptive qualitative methods. It was aimed to find out
kinds of presupposition on Barrack Obama’s speech at Islamic Society of
Baltimore. In this research, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method.
The object of this research is the script in the Barrack Obama speech. Instrument of
this research is observational checklist. It means that the researcher watches the
video of Barrack Obama’s speech at Islamic Society of Baltimore. The video can
be function to see context the utterances. The researcher finds the data on the script
of Barrack Obama’s speech. The researcher provides the table of presupposition for
analyzing data. Table of potential presupposition is the instrument used by
researcher to put the data, to classify and to identify the data. The mostly types of
presupposition found in Barrack Obama’s speech at Islamic society of Baltimore is
existential presupposition and the lowest is lexical presupposition. The existential
presupposition was the most dominant on this speech because the speeches contain
more define descriptive, real fact and real information to stimulate the audience’s
attention and emphasize his idea and promises to keep Muslim American feeling
safe in minority. Lexical in this research is the lowest number of type’s
presupposition on speeches of Barack Obama. This means that in the Barack
Obama's speech there was no implied expression to confirm his opinion.
Keywords : Presupposition, Speech.