This thesis analyzes the text of speech about Osama bin Laden’s death. The research
methodology is qualitative method that is written by descriptive analysis. Furthermore, for the
technique of data analysis in this research, the writer has to understand the content of the text of
speech and analyze the discourse structure. The units of analysis in this research is the text from
Barack Obama’s speech “Osama bin Laden dead” and the writer uses herself as instrument of
this research.
The aim of this research is to describe the discourse analysis using the Teun van Dijk’s
theory. There are two aspects that become the focus of study. They are the discourse structure
presented by Barack Obama and the type of speech that Barack Obama used in his speech. To
answer the questions, the writer used the books of discourse analysis, articles, journals and
internet, which are related with Discourse Analysis theory.
The speech tells about the death of Osama bin Laden. Finding of this study shows that the
writer finds out that there are many words and sentences which can be analyzed by using the
Teun van Dijk theory and it has brought to some different meaning. In this speech shows many
words and sentences that refer to the American Military. It can be seen that President Obama
wants to give more attention because of their work hard/ Furthermore, President Obama uses the
informative speech to explain about the death of Osama bin Laden.

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