Quality of Arguments Used in the First-Round Presidential Debate: Critical Pragmatics and Stephen Toulmin‘S Perspective

Quality of Arguments Used in the First-Round Presidential Debate: Critical Pragmatics and Stephen Toulmin‘S Perspective

View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volumeprovided-8 Issue by Repository-5C, May Universitas 2019 Sanata Dharma Quality Of Arguments Used In The First-Round Presidential Debate: Critical Pragmatics And Stephen Toulmin‘s Perspective Yuliana Setyaningsih, R. Kunjana Rahardi Abstract: It is important for politicians to have a good article is written so that it can be read by a wider audience. argumentative skill. For state leaders, the ability to think Like the writers in the advanced countries, this article is free logically, to use rhetoric, and to argue systematically, from political bias and alignments with the politicians scientifically, sharply, and eloquently is very crucial. The year featured in the discourses being analyzed . 2019 is the political year for Indonesia. Political campaigns leading to the presidential and the legislative election, both in Specifically, this article only focuses on the spoken national and regional levels, will happen in 2019. The focus of argumentative discourses presented by the presidential this research is to investigate the depth and breadth of the candidates in the debate in 2019. Due to some limitations, arguments stated by the presidential candidates and how those the argumentative discourses used as the source of research arguments are presented. The research substantial data source is substantive data are limited to the first-round of the in the form of speech transcript of the recorded video of the first- presidential debate. The debate‘s argumentative discourse in round presidential debate by two pairs of president and vice- president candidates. The research data were the debate other rounds are treated as being outside of the scope of this arguments found in the video transcript and the contexts article writing. surrounding them. The data gathering method used observation The purpose of the research is to find out the extent to by employing recording and note-taking techniques. After the which these Toulmin‘s model of argument (3) is applied by data were gathered, they were selected and classified based on the presidential candidates to build arguments in the first their types for further analysis. The analysis method was round of the presidential debate. Furthermore, this research distributional method and content analysis. Both data analysis methods were applied to yield significant results of the study. The is also intended to determine the extent to which the results showed that there are simple patterns of argument presidential candidates and their running mates take sides containing claim, subclaim, data, and warrant. The orders of with the marginalized people in the broadest sense through elements of arguments might be varied. The research results also the first round of presidential debate. showed that there were various pragmatic meanings found in the arguments used by the president and vice-president candidates. The results of the study which was analyzed using the critical II. LITERATURE REVIEW pragmatic perspective reflect how far the candidates were Theoretically, two main theories are used in this research. concerned with the marginalized, the underprivileged, and the The first theory is the pragmatics in relation with contexts. subjugated people. The second theory is the model of argument proposed by Toulmin (4). The two theories are used as the frame of Index Terms: Critical pragmatics, political argumentation, presidential debate reference and as the analytical tool to carry out this research. It needs to be clarified that pragmatics is the study of I. INTRODUCTION language with the objects in question being outside the language (5). Experts argue that pragmatics is the study of The linguistic and non-linguistic studies of speeches speaker‘s intention. The instruments used to conduct a delivered by political leaders in advanced countries have pragmatic analysis is context, especially situational contexts. been widely conducted (1). This study is important because Context is understood as the background knowledge shared studies on the substance and language of the speeches will by the interlocutors (6), (7). be beneficial for educational and research purposes. Such Understanding of the right and correct contexts will allow academic studies should be separated from political one to draw meaning from the right context. On the dimensions because the study is purely intended for contrary, insufficient understanding of the substance of academic purposes, as in education and research (2). context results in imperfect interpretation of the utterance. In Indonesia, a study on the discourses has not been Even worse, it can stray from its intended meaning. widely conducted. As a matter a fact, political views put Therefore, the argumentative discourses spoken by the forth by the politicians contained in the discourses are very presidential candidates in the debate must be interpreted beneficial for learners and scientists. For this purpose, this correctly and profoundly. Revised Manuscript Received on April 19, 2019. Yuliana Setyaningsih, Master Program of Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia R. Kunjana Rahardi, Master Program of Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Published By: Retrieval Number:E11020585C19/2019©BEIESP Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.E1102.0585C19 716 & Sciences Publication International Conference on Recents Advancements in Engineering and Technology (ICRAET-18) |15th and 16th March 2019|Siddhartha Institute of Technology & Sciences, Telangana, India. Critical pragmatics is slightly different from pragmatics context, which is further interpreted as the set of background in general (8), (9). Furthermore, it should be conveyed that assumptions shared by the the speaker and the hearer (17). in addition to being the most recent branch of linguistics, The theoretical review of the second theory starts by pragmatics is understood as the study of external linguistic presenting the view from a well-known anthropologist, units. Parker asserts that ‗pragmatics is the study of how Edward T. Hall, who asserts in relation to context that language is used to communicate. Pragmatics is distinct ‗information taken out of context is meaningless and cannot from grammar, which is the study of internal structure of reliably intepreted‘. Hall suggests that in an utterance, three language.‘(10) What is meant by the study of the external entities must always exist together, namely information, linguistic units is that a language must be interpreted based context, and meaning. When the three entities cannot be on the non-linguistic factors outside the language (11). separated from one another, each has a very dynamic Therefore, the external linguistic factors are also called relationship. It is asserted that any information will never extra-linguistic factors. The meaning inferred from the have a non-conceptual meaning, especially pragmatic pragmatics study is the contextual meaning or the pragmatic meaning, unless the identity of the context is clear. Thus, meaning, or commonly referred to as intent. Thus, intent is context will appear only when the three requirements are actually the pragmatic meaning, instead of semantic or met, namely the setting, which includes the dimensions of linguistic meaning (12). What determines the pragmatic time, place, and the surrounding material elements, the meaning or intent, commonly referred to as speaker‘s activities, which involve either verbal or non-verbal actions, meaning, is contexts, especially the situational contexts (13). the relationship between the speaker and the hearer which is In different situation, two identical statements can result in influenced by factors such as gender, age, status, role, two different meanings. Therefore, pragmatic meaning or achievement, prestige, familial relationship, professional intent is always contextual and situational. Different relationship, education, etc. (18) situations result in different speaker‘s intent. In a nutshell, The next theoretical review of the context is stated by the linguistic intention is the main focus of pragmatic study Keith Allan. This expert firmly distinguishes context into (14). three categories, namely the physical context or setting of In the studies, pragmatics cannot be separated from the the utterance, the word spoken in an utterance, and the from context, especially the situational contexts. To interpret textual environment. For the purpose of this short article, the pragmatic meaning or intent, the situational context is Allan‘s ideas on the second category of contexts are in line absolute and binding. Therefore, pragmatics is a context- and relevant, namely ―the world spoken of‖ which can be bound study, and the context refers to the situational context interpreted as ―the subject matter being discussed.‖ (19) as discussed earlier (15). Assumptions as the main substance More specifically, Allan stated that the nature of contexts of the pragmatic context are not always revealed clearlt by was actually not just ―the world spoken of‖ but ―the real the experts. The assumptions are interpreted in a relatively world spoken of‖. Thus, personal and communal different manner by different pragmaticists. Several other assumptions are not abstract assumptions, which are still prominent pragmatics

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