This research aims to analyze Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement Speech at Harvard University to explore its wording and the interaction between the speaker and the audience. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach (MDA), and the concepts... of intertextuality and interdiscursivity were adopted in this study. The results show that intertextually, Mark Zuckerberg narrated his experiences and stories, quoting famous sayings, and inserting religious text into his speech. Interdiscursively, he imported

. To elicit the data, a set of situations in which denial conditions of speech act given by Givon were used as the criteria was set up. The 7 signs of denial and the antonyms of the negated words were discovered. In connection to the speaker's presupposition

wide range of topics, for example the state administration, politicians' behaviors and political practices, political situations, and the people who are connected to politicians. In addition to political issues, it is found that some articles cover... metaphors, using words with connotative meanings, using proverbial expressions, using referring expressions, using speech play, using direct quotation and using implication. These indirect political criticizing strategies have different communicative