SPEECH ACT IN BARACK OBAMA SPEECH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY WHILE URGING VOTERS TO SUPPORT HILLARY CLINTON
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36815/snp2m.v0i1.333Keywords:
Speech Act, Pragmatic, Commissive UtteranceAbstract
On this occasion, the author will conduct research on one's speech acts in speeches. the author will conduct speech act research from the 44th president of the United State, namely Barack Obama. On this occasion he addressed the change of office and he chose Clinton at that time. This speech act is closely related to pragmatic rules in each speech act there are three types of speech acts, namely; locus speech acts, illocutionary speech acts, and perlocution speech acts. Because speech politicians mainly discuss by persuading or making others believe what you say, The Speech Acts plays the most important role. These are some significant illocutionary actions that convey intention to speak in a political speech. First, we will give a theory explanation of two main theories about the actions of Speech, Austin and Searle's. Secondly, From data we can see that the President Barack Obama touted the strides made during his presidency while urging voters to support Hillary Clinton. He almost use the commissive utterance. Because the President Barack Obama to some future action as described by the propositional content.
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