Novan Purwadi
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AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTINARY ACT IN DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH REGARDING COVID-19 Novan Purwadi; Rissa San Rizqiya
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 5, No 1 (2022): VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1, JANUARY 2022
Publisher : IKIP Siliwangi

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22460/project.v5i1.p49-56

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This research aimed to analyze the categories several illocutionary act that uses by Donald Trumps’ speech, and what is dominant that uses in his speech. This research method is descriptive qualitative  and illocutionary act theory by Searle. The data were taken from the CNN News in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020. There were 75 utterances and the percentage of utterances were Assertive53%, Directive 4%, Commissive 14%, Expressive 17%, and Declarative 0%. The result of this research is the dominant that uses by Donald Trumps’ is Assertive 40 utterance, it can be seen that Trump hoped his audiences would be persuaded to act. And based on the result, Donald Trump does not use declarative illocutionary acts in his speech. Keywords:  Communication, Speech Act, Illocutionary Act