An Analysis Of Illocutionary Acts In Donald Trump's Speech At The 2019 State Of The Union

In human interaction, there must be always something very common that happen in society. Getting another people to do something according to what we expect is something that always occurs in every aspect in our lives. It is usually wittingly done, especially the people that have positions or power are specified by their communication style with other people, as the example, a politician. Donald Trump as politician who is one of powerful people as the president of US that marked by controversial orator according to the way he delivers his speech at the 2019 State of The Union. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of illocutionary acts and the functions that spoken by Donald Trump in his speech at the 2019 State of The Union. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative. In this research, there are five types of illocutionary acts and nineteen functions of illocutionary acts was found in Donald Trump speech at the 2019 State of The Union. Based on the predominant from total representative illocutionary acts which is the function is asserting as the dominant one. At last, the result for this research is the students can be able to increase their skill in literature or Pragmatics especially about the illocutionary speech acts. And also, they can develop their abilities in understanding the types of illocutionary acts and using it in written or spoken language