THE ANALYSIS OF ASSERTIVE SPEECH ACTS ON THE SPEECH OF BARACK OBAMA AT THE ENGLISH SPEECH CHANNEL ABOUT IGNORANCE IS NOT A VIRTUE

Lestari, Dwi Ummi.2021. “The Analysis of Assertive Speech Acts on the Speech of
Barack Obama at the English Speech Channel About Ignorance Is Not a Virtue”.
Final Project, English Education Department, Faculty Langugae and Arts
Education, PGRI Semarang University, Academic Year 2020/2021. Advisor I: Dr.
Arso Setyaji, M. Hum. Advisor II: Laily Nur Affini, S. Pd., M. Hum.
Keywords: Assertive speech act, Analysis, Pragmatics.
This study is about to analyze the speech acts of Barack Obama’s speech at
Rutgers University especially the assertive speech act. The writer focuses on
analyzing the kinds of assertive acts that appear in Barack Obama's speech at
Rutgers University. This study was qualitative descriptive which analyzes the
utterances of Barack Obama’s speech by adopting Searle’s theory. This study
aims to investigate the types of representative acts in Barack Obama’s Ignorance
Is Not a Virtue and how assertive speech act realized in Barack Obama's speech.
From the results obtained, several types of assertive speech acts were found.
There are informing with 16 utterances. Suggesting with 9 utterances. Stating with
8 utterances. Asserting with 7 utterances. Describing with 4 utterances. Predicting
with 4 utterances. Assuring and implying have the same total of utterances which
is 2 utterances. Then affirming, conjecturing, and classifying also have the same
total of utterances which is one utterance. The most dominant that used in Barack
Obama’s speech is inform act which takes up 16 utterances.