Social power: the gap between majority and minority groups in Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches

Hendarto, Sylvia Christy (2019) Social power: the gap between majority and minority groups in Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. Masters thesis, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.

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Abstract

Nowadays, racial segregation issues still take place as a part of society even though the idea of equality is promoted to society. For example, lately in Indonesia the topic of segregation becomes the trending topic especially in relation to the politics. In the United States, the racial segregation against minority groups still remains as a controversial issue until now. In 2016, the racism issue was on high concern in public as represented in cases involving US police who shot and killed black people. Those series of cases raise back the awareness of racial segregation back then in 1950 which becomes the greatest momentum of conflicts in the history of racial segregation (Rbedi, 2016). This study examines the social power represents in Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. This study further investigates types of social power used, and how the gap between majority group and minority groups reflects in the speeches. It employed critical discourse analysis with socio cognitive approach was applied. The data were taken from three speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream”, “Our God is Marching On”, and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. The result reveals that five types of social power were used in the speeches (French & Raven, 1959; Raven, 1965, as cited in Raven, 2008). The gap between majority and minority group was reflected in their social status and roles in society.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Department:	["eprint_fieldopt_department_Graduate School" not defined]
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Discourse, critical discourse analysis, power, social power, majority group, minority group
Subjects:	English Education
Divisions:	Graduate School > Master Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Depositing User:	Users 6788 not found.
Date Deposited:	23 May 2019 03:29
Last Modified:	23 May 2019 03:29
URI:	http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/18426

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