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AN ANALYSIS ON SPEECH ACTS: ILLOCUTION IN THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

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ABSTRACT

Ahmad Faozan, 2014, An Analysis on Speech Acts: Illocution in The Presidential Inaugural Address of Barack Hussein Obama. Thesis, Tarbiyah Department, English Teaching Learning Program, Advisor: Mulyadi, S.S., M.Pd.

Key words: Speech acts, illocution, inaugural address.

Speech act is a theory attributed to John L. Austin (1962) who introduced the idea with the basic belief that language is used to perform action and speech is itself a form of action. Illocution, as the central to the concept of speech act, strongly deals with what the speaker intends to do by uttering a sentence. John R. Searle (1971) further develops illocution into a classification of five illocutionary types: representatives, directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives.
In this research, the researcher analyzes the illocutionary acts used by Barack Hussein Obama in his presidential inaugural address. This study mainly attempts to discuss the research focuses formulated in this study, namely: 1) the types of illocutionary speech acts performed in the presidential inaugural address of Barack Obama? 2) a ranking of the illocutionary acts based on their repetitive occurences which appear in the presidential inaugural address of Barack Obama.
The approach of this study is qualitative and the research method is descriptive research which describes the classification of illocutionary acts as well as the varied occurring illocutionary acts of Barack Obama’s inaugural address. The qualitative approach is content analysis which offers some alternative protocol for exploring text systematically to make replicable and valid inference from texts to the contexts of their use. The data are in the form transcription of the utterances of Barack Obama obtained from his inaugural presidential address.
The result of this study primarily reveals two important points: First, the five types of illocutionary speech acts (representatives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declaratives) do appear in the presidential inaugural speech of Barack Obama. The speaker used those illocutionary acts principally to transmit his message to the audience; to assert facts, tell his belief, promise some future actions, invite the audiences, declare something as well as express the speakers’ state of feeling. Second, a ranking of the illocutionary acts based on their repetitive occurences in the inaugural address is vary. The data clearly represent that representatives constitute the most frequently used acts occurring in the speech, the second most frequent classification is commissives the third rank is directives, the forth is declaratives and the last minimum portion is expressives. Those variedly used illocutionary acts have a tight connection with the fact that the orator aimed to emphasize a particular intention and it reflexes the speaker’s rhetorical style of attracting the audience by linguistic ways.
The results of this study are expected to be useful in providing an understanding on speech act theory, especially illocutionary act’s application in speech. Lastly, It is suggested to lead the next researchers to conduct a further creative research in the attempts of enriching a new thought in the world of linguistic studies.

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1320140410 Ahm A

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Pamekasan : STAIN Pamekasan Press., 2014

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Indonesia

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NONE

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SKRIPSI TBI 2014
Speech acts

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