This research explains the appraisal devices recognized in Michelle
Obama's speech. It identified how Michelle Obama expressed her feeling, attitude,
and judgement towards presidential candidates of the United States by applying
Martin and White Theory (2005). This research was done by breaking down the
speech into clauses and managable chunks to find out the Attitude devices in the
speech. The findings showed that there were 97 system of attitudes which consist
of 11 positive affects, 13 negative affects, 41 positive judgements, 10 negative
judgements, 15 appreciations and 7 negative apprecations. Michelle Obama gave
priorities to positive judgements in her speech because she believed that Hilarry
Clincton had capability to be the president of the United States and she also gave
negative judgments and appreciations to evaluate another candidate which is
Donald Trump. This study asserted that Michelle Obama was a good Orator with
high capability in public speaking. she gave her attitude by mentioning the fact
and her personal experience.

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