Abstract
This paper explores the types of expressive speech acts used by Kamala Harri in her victory speech as the first black female vice president in American history. Her personality as a Jamaican-American-Indian woman has attracted public attention, especially after the Black Lives Matter campaign. The five types of expressive speech acts in this study are based on Searle (1976). This speech act then refers to the words used to express the speaker’s feelings towards the situation, such as apologizing, thanking, deploring, and welcoming. The method used in this research is a qualitative method that involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data. The data of this study were taken from the transcript of Kamala’s victory speech retrieved from the website of the Washington Post. The results show there are 20 sentences used as the expressive speech act which reflect cultural values she owned as a Jamaican-Indian woman. These include greetings, gratitude, sadness, praise, happiness, and attention. Attentive speech includes speech acts of appreciation, willingness (hope), encouragement, the pride that shows solidarity. Behind these expressive speech acts, Harris implies a great intention to embrace multicultural values ??and empower the entire black community, especially women, and fight racism in the United States. Through her victory speech, Harris embodied multicultural values ??which imply her pride toward her ethnic roots and that she celebrates unity among diversities in the country of United States. Besides, the expressive speech acts reflect the social functions in leading a country.
Highlights
IntroductionTo communicate in a community, people require two types of language, spoken and written
Language holds a very crucial role in human life
4 Results and Discussion The results from the data analysis show that based on the linguistics form, we can differentiate two kinds of data, the utterances refer to sentences and phrases. It is found 20 data in form of expressive speech acts of greeting, gratitude, sadness, praise, happiness and expressive speech act of thoughtfulness, it is conducted by the aims of regarding people, thanking people, showing solidarity, showing affection, and praising people. Behind those illocutionary speech acts, we found that there is the deep intention of giving voice to generate equality and battle racism in the United States of America and shows that people from various races and tribes have equal rights to amazing the world
Summary
To communicate in a community, people require two types of language, spoken and written. The meaning of the language used by people has an intention meaning. This can be seen in the victory speech delivered by Kamala Harris as the first woman as a vice president of the USA. Through her speech, she expressed various ideas and information, she expressed her feeling with various words to appreciate the American people who have voted her as a vice President, she thanks and convinces all people to keep spirit hand in hand to make America great
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