Laelatul Abidah. 1709010015. 2021:Critical Discourse Analysis of Kamala Harris’s
Judgment on Trump’ Handling Over Pandemic in President Election Campaign of
United States 2020. Undergraduate Thesis for Sarjana Sastra Degree, English
Department, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto.
This research aims to identify the type of judgments and to explain how the judgment
realized in Kamala Harris’s campaign speech on Trump in handling pandemic in
president election of United States 2020.
The method of this research was using descriptive qualitative research. Using
descriptive qualitative method was because the data in this research used transcript
data from speech which is a verbal not numerous data. This research was done by
breaking the speech into sentences to find out the Attitude’s judgment and after
that identify and explain how it realized. The data were the transcript of Kamala
Harris’s campaign speech in United States President’s election 2020 about Trump’
handling pandemic.
In conducting this research, the researcher applied Appraisal Theory by Martin and
White (2005). From the analysis, the researcher found there were 160 sentences
based on Kamala Harris’s speech about how Trump handling pandemic. From 160
sentences there were 33 data of judgments, 10 data (30,3%) of negative judgment
capacity, 15 data (45,4%) of negative judgment tenacity, 1 datum (3,0%) of positive
judgment propriety, and 7 data (21,2%) of negative judgment propriety. The
percentages showed that the most judgments appear in Kamala Harris’s speech on
Trump’ handling pandemic was about Trump’s negative tenacity. It described Harris
wanted to deliver to people that Trump was undependable being a President of
United States, especially in saving American lives in this pandemic.