Representative and Commissive Illocutionary Acts in Donald Trump’s Inauguration Speech

I Made Netra,Putu Diah Sekar Pratiwi Putri,Sang Ayu Isnu Maharani

doi:10.24843/jh.2018.v22.i04.p31

Abstract

This paper is entitled Representative and Commissive Illocutionary Acts in Donald Trump’s Inauguration Speech. The aims of this study are to find out the classification and the intended meaning of the representative and commissive illocutionary act found in the speech. The research method used in the study was qualitative analysis method. The data were collected from the Donald Trump’s inauguration speech transcript and then identified the function of the illocutionary act and explained the intended meaning. Based on the analysis, the functions of the representative illocutionary act that were found are stating, predicting. affirming, describing and denying. Meanwhile, the function types of commissive illocutionary act are assuring, promising and pledging. The intended meanings that were found in the context of situation analysis are presenting, unifying, revealing, clarifying, convincing and committing.

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Background of theStudy represented in their communication of People use words for all of sorts daily life
Speech act is the smallest unit of human communication similar to the word for the smallest form found in language and morpheme as the smallest grammatical unit of a language that can not be further divided
Political discourse make use of all the illocutionary features in its process, for example, when a politician delivers a speech and describes a temporal situation, delivers his intention from the communication, his ability to change the state of the world and delivers a set of condition of success, a promising and the effect which comes from the utterances

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Introduction

Study represented in their communication of People use words for all of sorts daily life. Political discourse as one of the genre in communication, shows how the speech act, especially illocutionary works. Political discourse make use of all the illocutionary features in its process, for example, when a politician delivers a speech and describes a temporal situation, delivers his intention from the communication, his ability to change the state of the world and delivers a set of condition of success, a promising and the effect which comes from the utterances. The analysis was conducted with an inauguration speech from a President as a sample of political discourse as well as its object. Political discourse was chosen as the object because it uses all the features of speech act

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