ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ANALYSIS IN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO‘S SPEECH DEALING WITH COVID-19

Winda
Resti
Ayu
Maesaroh.
2020.
―ILLOCUTIONARY
ACTS
ANALYSIS IN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO‘S SPEECH DEALING WITH
COVID-19‖. Final project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of language
and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dias Andris , Advisor II:
Laily Nur Affini, S.Pd.,M.Hum.
Keywords: Speech acts, Illocutionary acts, Covid-19.
In this research, the researcher focuses on the types of illocutionary acts and
the most frequently illocutionary employed by president Joko Widodo‘s speech
dealing with COVID-19. The researcher used to descriptive research to analyze the
data.
The researcher attempts to analyze the data using Pragmatics study especially speech
acts, classification the types of illocutionary acts and the most frequently
illocutionary employed by president Joko Widodo by Austin‘s theory. Illocutionary
acts can be categorized into several types. They included Verdictives, Exercitives,
Commisive, Behabitives, and Expositives.
The researcher took the data from president Joko Widodo‘s speech in the Sidang
Kabinet Paripurna on Youtube. The researcher found that was the most frequently
illocutionary employed by president Joko Widodo‘s speech was exercitives which
contain 27 data. This research also found five functions of illocutionary acts such as
command, order, proclaim, entreat, appoint. The most frequently of illocutionary acts
found most in this category was command.