N ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS FOUND IN JOE BIDEN'S VICTORY SPEECH AND ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Feni Rahma Sari. 2021. AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS FOUND IN
JOE BIDEN’S VICTORY SPEECH AND ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR TEACHING
ENGLISH. A final project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of
Language and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr.
Senowarsito, M.Pd., Advisor II: Ririn Ambarini, S. Pd., M. Hum.
Keywords: Speech act, Illocutionary acts, Victory speech, Joe Biden
This research is about an analysis illocutionary acts found in Joe Biden’s
victory speech and its contribution for teaching English. The aim of this research
was to analyze the types of illocutionary act found in Joe Biden’s victory speech.
It used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. To identify types of
illocutionary acts, the researcher used Yule’s theory. The results show that there
were five types of illocutionary act found in Joe Biden’s victory speech. Those are
representative, expressive, declaration, commissive, and directive. From the 96
illocutionary acts, there were 62 representatives (64,58%), 11 expressives
(11,46%), 2 declarations (2,08%), 9 commissives (9,38%), and 12 directives
(12,5%). The most dominant illocutionary acts used in Joe Biden’s victory speech
was representative. It shows that Joe Biden as the speaker giving more statements
and information about his victory and the real problem condition of America
which refers to asserting, informing, stating, retelling. The result of this study can
be used as enrichment material for learning English, especially for introducing
speech acts to students through spoken text. Joe Biden speech can help students
connect with the relevant events in real life and get direct example on how the
speaker uses any kinds of speech acts.