THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT BY DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH IN DEALING WITH THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

This research discussed about speech act by Donald Trump in dealing with the covid-19 outbreak. In speech act, it is found that every utterances that generate an action will be related to locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. This study aimed to identify the speech act categories and the most dominant speech act in Donald Trump’s speech. The research data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative method. The researcher analyzed Donald Trump's utterances and classified them into several categories of speech acts. The finding showed that Donald Trump’s speech contain all of the three types of speech acts. In the locutionary act, the researcher found 3 utterances which showed the literal meaning of what Donald Trumps’ said. Meanwhile, in the illocutionary act, they were 15 assertive acts, 4 directive acts, 4 expressive acts, but commisive acts and declarative acts were not found. Then, in the perlocutionary act, there was an effect from the citizen caused by the speech. Furthermore, the most dominant type of speech act used by Donald Trump was Illocutionary act