DISAGREEMENT STRATEGIES USED BY AMERICAN POLITICIAN IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 2016 INTRODUCTION The debate is a discussion about issue or problem. Formal debate consistsof two sides: one supporting the issue and one that opposes it. “Debate involves... [parties] in expressing their opinions from two different perspectives with the goal of contradicting each other’s arguments” (Chang & Cho, 2010 p,1). Thus, debate is an activity of conveying arguments between two or more parties, either individually or in groups, in context and in decisions (Tarigan, 1990 p, 120).Tarigan (1984: 90-92) classified debate based on its form, purpose, and method, the debate can be classified into three categories, namely assembly or parlementary debate, cross-examination …show more content…
The writer collected the data, then, analyzed it. Since human beings and the situation around them are involved in this study there must be some appropriate instruments to collect the data. There are several steps to collect the data such as: finding the video of the first Hillary and Trump presidential debate, finding the script of the first Hillary and Trump presidential debate,watching the video in order to understand the situation happen and to check the accuracy of the scrip which taken from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-, and finding the sentence that contain disagreement and assigning codes to them Before analyzing the data, the writer has to be sure that the data have been valid and reliable.In this study the writer used peer debrifing to determine the validity of the data. The writer asked to the supervisors to check the data collected by the writer. To assure that the data were reliable, the writer used two steps namely: checked transcript to make sure to make sure that they do not make obvious mistakes made during transcriptionand make sure that there is no drift in the definition of codes, and shifted the meaning of codes in coding