Illocutionary Acts On Donald Tramp Inaugural Speech

The purpose of this research is to know the types of illocutionary acts which are contained in the U.S. president Donald Trump inaugural speech. Many illocutionary acts that will be analyzed based on context. It means, the illocutionary act is often used in every speech. The other goal of this research is to divide the direct and indirect speech act that found in script of U.S. president Donald Trump inaugural speech. Researcher used descriptive qualitative method by watching the inaugural speech of U.S. president Donald Trump, collecting the data which relate to the research, observe and analyze the types and meaning of illocutionary acts in the inaugural speech of U.S. president Donald Trump with reference to the linguistics theories. Researcher used the speech act theory by John Rogers Searle and let the other theories to support the thesis. Researcher found and analyzed twenty four data of illocutionary acts which were used by Donald Trump in his inaugural speech, those are: thirteen data of representative, two data of directive, four data of commisive, three data of expressive, and two data of declarationix, 54 hlm,; ilus 25 cm