An Analysis of Thematic Organization of The Press Conference Speech by president Obama at The G20 Summit

The study is concerned with the Theme Rheme, and the Thematic Progression Pattern found in the press conference speech by president Obama at G20 summit. The study aims to analyze the type of Theme Rheme and type of Thematic Progression Patterns found in the speech text. The study used a qualitative method with a descriptive design to analyze the data. The data source is taken from press conference speech by president Obama at G20 summit. The data analyzed adopted the theory by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) to investigate the Theme and Rheme and the idea by Paltridge (2006) to explore the Thematic Progression Pattern. The study concludes that Participant as Topical Theme is the most dominant in the Theme and Rheme. The Thematic Progression Patterns found that the Reiterated/Constant Theme Pattern is the most prevalent in the Thematic Progression Pattern.