Speech Acts Found in Inaugural Addresses of Barack Obama

Widya Oktarini

Abstract


This research analyzes the speech acts and language style found in inaugural
addressess of the presidents of The United States; Barack H. Obama. This
research aims at describing kinds and functions of speech acts, the compliance
and violation of cooperative principle. This research is descriptive qualitative
using socio-pragmatics approach. In collecting the data, it uses simak method
and note-taking technique. In analyzing the data, it uses contextual method
by using socio-pragmatics theory. In presenting the results of the analysis, it
uses informal method by verbal language. The results of the analysis showed:
(a) there were six kinds of speech acts found in the inaugural addresses,
specifically: assertive, directive, comissive, expressive, and declarative in which
declarative found in Obama’s second inaugural address with one data only (b)
the functions of speech acts found are: (i) to give opinion, (ii) to inform, (iii)
to give direction, (iv) to promise, (v) to express feelings (vi) to declare and to
(vii) maintain relationship.


Keywords


speech acts; inaugural addresses; Obama; socio-pragmatics

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32528/ellite.v3i2.1920

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