Analysis of Speech Act in Joe Biden’s Victory Speech 2020

Abstract

The purpose of language is strongly related to the goals of the speakers, the concepts they wish to transmit, and the listeners' prior knowledge. First, speakers want their audience to feel something after listening to them. Speakers must persuade listeners to recognize these objectives in order for them to be properly understood. Second, in order to effectively communicate concepts, speakers must take into account how their listeners think in their words. Thirdly, presenters need to have some idea of what their audience are thinking right now. The study of the researcher is limited to Austin's and Searle's classifications, which can be found in the text of Joe Biden's victory speech. The author restricts his discussion to the following topics in light of the preceding models: What roles did the speech acts utilized in Joe Biden's victory speech serve? What kinds of speech acts may be seen in the text of Joe Biden's acceptance speech؟ What are the most important Austin's and Searle's classifications that can be discovered in the text of Joe Biden's victory speech? The researcher's goals in authoring this study are as follows: To what extent do the speech acts Austin's and Searle's classifications, which can be found in the text of Joe Biden's victory speech, serve their intended purposes? To examine the kind of speech acts described by Austin and Searle in the text of Joe Biden's victory speech? How would you characterize the predominant speech act according to Austin's and Searle's classifications contained in the text of Joe Biden's victory speech?