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The Analysis of Irony and Sarcasm on Dalia Mogahed’s Speech Entitled “What it’s Like to be a Muslim in America”

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Key Word : Irony, Sarcasm and Speech
Figurative language is language which employs various figure of
speech. Figure of speech make language significant, moving and
fascinating. Some examples are metaphor, hyperbole, simile, irony,
sarcasm, etc. In delivering speech, speakers often use figurative language
which is one of the strategies to attract the attention of the audiences. Speech
is public speaking activity which is generally in the form of formal
conversation carried out by speaker to express his opinion, or to provide
overview of important thing or an event and must be discussed to provide
understanding or information to the audiences. In this research the
researcher will be focusing on two categories of figurative language that are
irony and sarcasm. Irony is result from the contrast between the actual
meaning of a word or statement and the suggestion of another meaning and
sarcasm is a type of language that contains offensive teasing or sarcasm.
The kind of this research is library research with content analysis
method by using sociological approach. The data was obtained from Dalia
Mogahed’s speech entitled “What it’s Like to be a Muslim in America” by
using irony and sarcasm theories of Perrine and Camp. The researcher
observed the speech from the video and transcript to find the data.
From the analysis the researcher found figurative language of irony
and sarcasm in that speech. There are15 data that contains irony and sarcasm
on Dalia Mogahed’s speech entitled “What it is Like to be a Muslim in
America” are categorized into verbal irony (3), situational irony (2),
propositional sarcasm (2), lexical sarcasm (5), like prefixed sarcasm (2) and
illocutionary sarcasm (1). Figurative language related with connotative
meaning that will explain the explicit meaning that contains in the irony and
sarcasm that found in that speech. It can be conclude that adding some
figurative language especially in irony and sarcasm will make the speech
more interested to the audience.

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No. Panggil

132022104 DIL A

Penerbit

Pamekasan : IAIN Madura., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

xi+51 hlm, 21x29,5 cm

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English

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132022104

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SKRIPSI TBI 2022

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104

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