Analisis Wacana Kritis Pada Pidato Kemenangan Joe Biden = A Critical Discourse Analysis On Joe Biden’s Victory Speech

This thesis is describing the critical discourse analysis of Joe Biden’s speech. The objectives of the studies are to find (1) text analysis used in Joe Biden’s victory speech, and (2) elements of social analysis found in Joe Biden's victory speech.
This research was conducted out the Joe Biden victory's speech. In analyzing the speech, the writer decided to use the qualitative approach with descriptive techniques to describe and analyze the data. In analyzing the data, the writer first identified the data, classified the data, analyzed and last made a conclusion. The analysis focused on analyzing discourse using the theory of Teun A. van Dijk.
The finding of this research shows that there are three elements in Joe Biden's speech, i.e., microstructure, macrostructure, and superstructure. In macrostructure, there is only one type of element to be described, which is thematic. In microstructure, there are semantics which contains background, details, and presupposition. Syntaxes are divided into three parts, sentence form, coherence, and pronoun. Next is stylistic. In stylistic, there is only one category which is a lexical choice. Last is rhetoric. Besides analyzing the structure of a text, the writer also find that power and access are involved in Joe Biden's victory speech.

Keywords : critical discourse analysis, speech, social analysis in CDA.