Analysis of illocutionary acts in victory speech and inaugural speech of Barrack Obama - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This study was a descriptive qualitative study on Illocutionary Acts of
speeches delivered by Barrack Obama, ?Victory Speech? and ?Inaugural Speech?.
The writer wanted to know the classifications of Illocutionary Acts occurring the
utterances in the speeches of Barrack Obama, the frequency occurred of each
classification in the speeches. In analyzing ?Victory Speech? and ?Inaugural
Speech?, the writer used Austin?s theory of Speech Acts, Illocutionary Acts of
Searle (1976). This research was done in several steps. The findings showed that
the five classifications of Illocutionary Acts with different frequencies used in
both two speeches. Furthermore, it was revealed that the every classification was
occurred in ?Victory Speech? and ?Inaugural Speech?, they are Representatives,
Directives, Commissives, Expressives, and Declarations. Finally, it was
discovered that Obama in his speeches used several acts of each classification to
transmit his message to the audiences, mainly in the way to assert the fact, tell his
beliefs, promise some future actions, invite the audiences and declare something.

Contributor
• (01-025) Samuel Gunawan
• (76-012) Josefa Juniarti Mardijono

Subject
1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE-STUDY AND TEACHING
2. SPEECH-STUDY AND TEACHING
3. SPEECH ACTS (LINGUISTICS)-STUDY AND TEACHING

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011861/ING/2009; Isanna A. Muskananfola (11405054)
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