RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ON MARIO TEGUH GOLDEN WAYS SHOW IN METRO TV.

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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ON MARIO TEGUH GOLDEN

WAYS SHOW IN METRO TV

A THESIS

Submitted to Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra

By:

YANTI JOSEVA MUNTE

NIM. 2103220046

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost the writer would like to express her praises to God Almighty, Jesus Christ, for the strengths, blessings, and guidance which have been given to her in completing this thesis. This thesis is aimed to fulfill the requirements for the degree of SarjanaSastra (S-1) at the English Department Faculty of Language and Arts, Sate University of Medan.

This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and help of several individuals who always contribute and extend their valuable assistances in the preparation and the completion of this thesis. The writer’s special appreciation goes to:

In completing this thesis, the writer has received a lot of assistance and

academic support from some people. Therefore, the writer would like to express

her sincere gratitude, love and special thanks to:

 Prof. Dr. IbnuHajarDamanik, M.Si., as the Rector of State University of

Medan.

 Dr. IsdaPramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Language and Arts

for her leadership and administrative assistance during the process of

writing this thesis.

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English Department, Rika S.Pd., M.Hum., as Secretary of Englisg Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A.,

as the head of English Literature Department, and Dra. Marsitowarni,

M.Ed., as the Head of English Education Department.

 Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A.,Ph.D as her thesis advisor, for the advice,

guidance, constructive comment, valuable knowledge, and precious time

he spent in correcting and supervising the draft of writing during the

completion of this thesis. And also thanks to all beloved lecturers in

English and Literature Department who advised and guided the writer

during academic years.

 Dr. Siti Aisah Ginting, M.Pdas the writer’s Academic counselor who has

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 MaamEuisandMaamEndahfor helping the writer in preparing the files

for the purposes of this thesis.

 Her beloved parents; her beloved father Mr. Anthonius Munte, her

 All her beloved Classmate of Applied linguistics Regular 2010 especially

kurcaci;Octhaviani Tinambunan, Sumarni Parapat, and Vivien Rismawati Banurea. Her friends Dwi Rizky Nurkusuma, Siti Huzaifah Tanjung, and Ulan Trilestari and others that cannot be

mentioned all. Thanks for their support, information, encouragement, and

beautiful day spent together.

 All her beloved Boarding housemate, Putri Elperida Pasaribu, Morina

Ginting, Nancy Alretni, RirisManihuruk, DeslynaZebua, Santi Sidabutar, Helen Soraya,Hotlas, Sihotang, Peace Martua, and others

whom cannot be mentioned all for being her friends and family.

Without their deep and sympathetic understanding, this thesis could not

complete. Over all, the writer hopes this thesis can give a bit contribution to the

Applied Linguistics. Therefore, comments, critics, suggestions, and advices are

accepted from the readers.

Medan, Apri 2014

The writer,

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ABSTRACT

Munte, Yanti J. 2103220046. A study of Rhetorical Analysis on Mario Teguh

Golden Ways Show in Metro TV. A Thesis. Faculty of Language and Arts,

State University of Medan, 2014.

This study deals with the types of rhetorical strategy of Mario Teguh Golden

Ways show. The objectives of this study were to identify the kinds of rhetorical

logos strategy which were applied in Mario Teguh Golden Ways Show, to analyze

why those rhetorical strategies were applied. This research applied descriptive

qualitative method. It took two episodes of Mario Teguh Golden Ways Show

which were downloaded from internet. Based on the analysis, there were five

rhetorical logos strategy occured in the show namely Satire, Diction, Parody

Sarcasm, Repetition. However there was one kind of rhetoric which was not listed

in the kinds of rhetoric itself. The writer named it Miscellaneous as part of

deviation. These logos strategy were effective to be used in affecting people

persuasively. And miscellaneous occured because Mario Teguh used it in an

entertainment program.

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.1 Basic Rhetorical Strategy ... 15

Table 3.1 The Episode of Mario Teguh Golden Ways Show ... 24

Table 4.1 The Numbers of the Types of Rhetorical Strategy ... 27

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show, in a text , and including in an art. One of a talk show which applied rhetoric

is Mario Teguh Golden Ways Show.The speaker of this talk show program is

famous motivator namely Mario Teguh. However this study will analyze how

does Mario Teguh’s rhetoric affect the people persuasively.

This study is focused on the rhetorical appeals strategy by employing the

theory proposed by Aristotle, namely the common used are the triangle of

rhetorical analysis (persuasive appeals) namely ethos or ethical appeals is

focusing on the author’s, speaker’s persona. Logos or logical appeal is focusing

on the message or subject or the text itself. And finally, pathos or path ethic

appeal is focusing on the use of emotional appeals to alter the audience. The other

two persuasive strategy are telos which is focusing on the purposes, while kairos

is focusing on the setting. In order to limit the scope of the analysis the writer

mainly focused on the logical function or logos namely reasoning.

For example

We often do more regret because we speak, than silence. People who often regret

have to think it at least twice about goodness of his words. If you don’t have good

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This utterance classified as Cause and effect as the basic rhetorical

strategy. The rule is that when people are talking they will regret after realizing

that they have some mistakes while speaking.

In some other countries rhetoric has become the part of subject in

universities such as University of Texas English Department, in the Department of

English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. There have been some researches on

rhetoric; three of them are explained in the following. The first is Rhetorical

Empathy in Dustin Lance Black’s 8: A Play on (Marriage) Words by Lisa

Blankenship, 2013. She focused on rhetorical empathy functions in 8 on a number

of levels: by appealing to emotion and pathos, to shared identity, and to shared

experiences that attempt to reduce the Other’s sense of threat and promote

empathy. And she said that rhetorical empathy functions in the play as a form of

strategic essentialism; the characters are, for the most part, hetero-normative in

their appearance and gender performance and, except for the fact that they’re

gays; they could easily be a member of any one of the straight couples in the

audience.

The other previous researcher is James J. Brown 2012 with his article

Louis C.K.’s ‘Weird Ethic’: Kairos and Rhetoric in the Network. In his article he

mainly focused on the rhetorical kairos strategy. Louis C.K as a comedian

employed method by his own way; attunes himself to the possibilities and

predicaments of kairos by not only responding to unpredictable rhetorical

situations but also by constructing his own predicaments. C.K.’s method is a

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progymnasmata for attuning to the unpredictability of kairos. In his own words,

he does things in “the most complicated way possible.

The last is A Rhetorical Analysis Approach to Natural Language

Processing by Benjamin Englard 2007. This research presents a novel approach,

Rhetorical Analysis, to solving problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The NLP problems investigated with Rhetorical Analysis were the Author

Identification problem - predicting the author of a piece of text based on its

rhetorical strategies, Election Prediction - predicting the winner of a presidential

candidate's re-election campaign based on rhetorical strategies within that

president's inaugural address, Natural Language Generation - having a computer

produce text containing rhetorical strategies, and Document Summarization. The

writer in this article focused on the writers’ credibility namely ethos or ethical

appeals.

From these journals, Louis C.K.’s ‘Weird Ethic’: Kairos and Rhetoric in

the Network by James J. Brown, Jr., 2012 is the most relevant. This journal is

about how a particular person do interaction with people in a right and interesting.

It is close related to about Mario Teguh’s interaction in order to affect people as

he intended.

B. The Problem of the Study

With reference to the background, the problems of the study are

formulated as the following.

1. What kinds of rhetorical logos strategy are applied in Mario Teguh Golden

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2. Why are they applied as they are?

C. The Objective of the Study

In line with the problems, the objectives are

1. to identify the kinds of rhetorical logos strategy which are applied in

Mario Teguh Golden Ways Show,

2. to elaborate why are they applied as they are.

D. The Scope of the Study

This study is focused on the observing of the rhetorical strategy logos or

logical appeals namely reasoning or giving the argumentations by dealing with the

theory proposed by Aristotle.

E. The Significance of the Study

Findings of the study are expected to offer theoretical and practical

significances.

Theoretically, the findings can be applied in order to improve readers’

ability or skill in speaking effectively. The findings are expected to be used as

evidence that rhetorical strategies; especially logical appeals are effective to be

applied in public speaking or debating and even daily speaking.

Practically the findings are relevant and useful

1. for those readers especially the students of English Department to those in

term of having more information and competence about rhetoric, and

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Belum Kelar and Jika Dia Mencintaimu, conclusions are drawn as the following

1. There are six types of rhetorical strategy occured in Mario Teguh Golden

Ways Show namely, Satire, Diction, Parody, Sarcasm Repetition and

Miscellaneous. But the last one is not included in the strategy itself,

because it is the combination of whole.

2. The function of those rhetorical strategy; Satire, Diction, Parody, Sarcasm

and Repetition is to criticize the human corruption through humor by

diction and clarifying those corruption of man, with the purpose to affect

the behavioural aspect or moving into an action. The existence of

Miscellaneous is due to the speaker used his language in an entertainment

or it is called as deviation.

B. Suggestions

In relation to the conlcusions suggestions are staged as the following

1. The students who learned Speaking, Poetry and Writing subjects need to

comprehend this rhetorical so that they can improve their ability in

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2. For students who are going to join the Speech contest or Debating contest

could apply this strategy. By applying this strategy their arguments will be

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