AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON BARACK OBAMA’S FAREWELL SPEECH

This research entitled “An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts on Barack Obama’s
Farewell Speech”. This research was a descriptive quantitative analysis that discusses
about illocutionary acts in Barack Obama speech. In analyzing the script, this study
used theory by Yule (1996). The data in this research were Barack Obama utterances
and script in his farewell speech. The purpose of this analysis was to find out the
types, and functions of illocutionary act in the script of Barack Obama farewell
speech. From the analysis it was found that four types of illocutionary acts were used
in this speech. Types of illocutionary act used in the speech were representatives
50.6%, followed by directives 28.4%, expressives 16.1%, commissives 4.9%, and the
last is declarations 0%. The most dominantly used illocutionary acts was
representatives. Based on the result, the researcher found that the event of this speech
was the factor affected Barack Obama used representatives more than the others. The
event of this speech is farewell speech.
Key words: Analysis, Speech Acts, Speech, Farewell Speech, and Barack Obama