NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AS CONVEYED ON 2016TH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE CANDIDATES: DONALD TRUMP VS HILLARY CLINTON’S SPEECHES

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The study aims at investigating the negative emotions expressed in the Presidential

Debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. According to Staats (1975) negative

emotions refers to an evolution of scathe feeling that can affect an action to self and

others. Some concepts used in analyzing the data are basic emotions, language and

emotion, meaning and context, figurative language and repetition (Fiehler, 2002; Parrott,

2001; Wilson, 2006). The methodology used in this study is qualitative method. Data were

taken from the third presidential debate on October 19, 2016. All of the data were observed

and analyzed related to negative emotions in terms of ANGER that covers outrage, hostility,

scorn, dislike, hate, loathing, disgust, revulsion, spite and annoyance.These were often

used by the candidates. The negative emotions were revealed through the choice of words in

terms of literal words, irony, sarcasm, and repetition. The findings show the various ways to

express the negative emotions as a result of an evaluation of social phenomena, political

situation, and condition faced by the Americans. The result of this study can develop the study

of language and emotion in other aspects.

Keywords: basic emotion, negative emotion, anger, non-literal expression