Rhetorical Analysis of Greta Thunberg's Speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019

Speech is a one way communication between a speaker and audience. In persuasive speech, the strategy of convincing the audience to believe on what a speaker says is very crucial. However, good strategies to persuade the audience in a speech are not enough to convince the audience without good speech delivery. Therefore, balancing good persuasive strategy and speech delivery can make the speaker produce an effective persuasive speech. Greta Thunberg, who is an activist who delivered a speech on climate change in front of the United Nations. This research is a rhetorical analysis or an analysis of the way someone persuade others. Greta Thunberg speech is analyzed using contentt analysis. The researcher specifies the analysis on the rhetorical proofs and the speech delivery in Greta Thunberg speech in 2019. This research has two research questions, namely: 1.What type of rhetorical appeals did Greta Thunberg use to convince the audience?v2. How do rhetorical appeals in Greta Thunberg speech to convince the audience ? The first finding is related to rhetorical proofs. According to Aristotle (1954), there are three rhetorical proofs: (1) logical proofs (logos) (2) ethical proofs (ethos)(3) emotional proofs (pathos). Greta Thunberg uses all types of rhetorical proofs in his presidential candidacy announcement speech. He uses emotional proof (pathos) for 47%, ethical proof (ethos) for 23%, and logical proof (logos) for 30%. The second finding is menjelaskan pidato yang disampaikan oleh Greta Thunberg explaining the speech delivered by Greta Thunberg based on the rhetorical appeals that have been answered in the first question.