AN ANALYSIS OF THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT OF ANGELINA JOLIE’S SPEECH: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN

The purpose of this research is to find out what kind of illocutionary act that
found in Angelina Jolie‟s speech video and what is the frequent type of
illocutionary act that used by Angelina Jolie on her speech “Equality for Women”.
Descriptive qualitative method was used to investigate and describe Illocutionary
Act of Angelina Jolie‟s Speech: Equality for Women. The data of this study
collected used the video of Angelina Jolie‟s speech entitled “Equality for
Women”, and then the researcher analyzes the result to get the final findings of
the research.
From this study the researcher found that there are several kind of illocutionary
act that used by Angelina Jolie on her speech such as declarative (3,1%),
commissive (14%), directive (9,3%), expressive (18,7%), and representative
(54,6%). The most frequent type of illocutionary act that Angelina Jolie used is
representative with 35 data (54,6%).
From the explanation above, it can be seen that the most frequent of illocutionary
act found in Angelina Jolie speech video “Equality for Woman” was
representative type. Angelina as a UN Defense emphasized reports and real facts
abot issues and case of gender equality that was happenned around the world. By
delivering this speech, Angelina Jolie provided a real overview about gender
equality cases and issues. In line with the issues stated by Angelina, she is hopes
that in the future people will be more aware of gender equality and what they can
do as a form of their contribution in helping realise the goals of the UN and
people can better understand their rights.
Keywords: Illocutionary act, Speech Act, Gender Equality