Critical Discourse Analysis Of Speech By Lee Hsien Loong About Coronaviruses In Singapore

This research is Critical Discourse Analysis which aims to describe the utterances found in the speech delivered by the Prime Minister of Singapore namely Lee Hsien Loong about coronaviruses outbreak in his country. This research type is descriptive qualitative research by using The techniques of data collection such as documentation and observation. The researcher wants to (1) know the intentions of the speaker’s utterances in his speech and also (2) what dimensions of Critical Discourse Analysis which are found in Lee Hsien Loong’s speech. In this research, the theories used are Speech Act theory proposed by J.R Searle and Critical Discourse Analysis Theory by Fairclough. The results of this reseach show that (1) there are 8 kinds of meaning found in Lee Hsien Loong’s speech. They are informing, stating, claiming, convincing, hyphotesizing, commanding, greeting and hoping. (2) In the other hand, using Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclogh, the researcher has found that there 3 dimensions which show the meaning of Lee Hsien Loong’s speech such as Discourse Practice Analysis, Sociocultural Practice Analysis, and also Language Text Analysis. Firstly in the language text analysis shows that the speaker notice well the text structure to make it sequence, the grammar to make it sense and also the coherence to connect his explanations so that it will be easy to be understood by the audience. Secondly, the speaker uses his ocassion through the sociocultural practice dimensions to get the audience do something. Thirdly, sociocultural practice analysis is about how the speaker delivers his speech to the audience