Illocutionary Acts Used by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon in Economic Discussion Thesis

ABSTRACT

Illocutionary acts is viewed as an utterance by means of which speaker communicates his feelings, attitudes, beliefs, or intentions with respect to some event or state of affairs. Its mean that illocutionary acts are performances of which speaker communicates something to the hearer to do something like what the speaker’s utterances and it gives some effect to the hearer. The researcher analyzes illocutionary acts used by the President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon in Economic Discussion. This study is important because none of earlier illocutionary studies focused their research on the President utterance which categorize as formal discussion that contents illocutionary acts in economic area.

This study is intended to investigate what kinds of illocutionary acts used by the President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon in Economic discussion.

In this study the researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method. The data are analyzed descriptively depend on the illocutionary acts used by George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon in economic discussion that happened in Texas,
2005.

The findings that have been analyzed by using Searle’s theory, the researcher found that most of the utterances used by George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon contain constantive act, directive act, commissive act, and expressive act. But declarative acts are not used in this field analysis. Kinds of constantive acts used are informing, affirming, conjecturing, asserting, denying, answering, and disagreeing. Meanwhile, directive act in this analysis contains the act of begging, asking, proposing, suggesting and expecting. Besides, the commissive act also constitutes the act of guaranteeing, agreeing, and promising. In addition, the expressive acts used by George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon are greeting, thanking, and apologizing. George W. Bush and Prime Minister Sharon use 4 functions of illocutionary acts: competitive, convivial, collaborative, and conflictive.

Finally, the researcher hopes that this research can give a contribution for
the next researcher who are interested in illocutionary acts research by using other theories that more complete and better.