AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS USED BY INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RETNO MARSUDI’S SPEECH AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS 2023

This research discussed the speech acts used by Retno Marsudi in her
speech at the General Assembly of The United Nations on October 26, 2023,
which aimed to find out the types of illocution acts used by Retno Marsudi in her
speech and find out the most frequent illocution act type applied by Retno
Marsudi in her speech. Using a qualitative method with content analysis, the data
were obtained from Retno Marsudi’s speech transcript and utilized a checklist
instrument table to gather the data. The data were analyzed by using a
classification of illocution acts theory by Searle (1969). This research revealed the
illocution act types used by Retno Marsudi’s speech, the data occurrence of each
type was 26 data of the assertive type, 13 data of the directive type, 1 data of the
expressive type, 1 data of the declarative type, and 0 data of the commissive type.
The meaning of each action was also described as the results. It can be concluded
that in diplomatic speech, assertive speech act is dominant. Since diplomatic
speech contains the facts or information about something or some condition that is
the topic of the speech.
Keywords: Speech Acts, Illocution Acts, Retno Marsudi Speech.