Illocutionary Acts Used in Kofi Annan’s Interview

ABSTRACT

Illocutionary act is a part of speech act. This theory emphasizes not only saying something, but also doing and expressing something. Kofi Annan is a great person. Although he is ex- Secretary General, but his utterances related to his political policy still effect and influence the world. That is why, the researcher interests to concentrate and examine illocutionary act focusing on Kofi Annan’s Interview.

This research investigates what types of illocutionary act used in Kofi Annan’s interview in the years of 2005 and 2006. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. To describe and explain the phenomena of speech act, especially illocutionary act used in Kofi Annan’s interview.

The data sources of this research are the utterances found in Kofi Annan’s interview. There are several steps for data collection. The researcher go to internet and browse the official website of BBC and Online Newshour which is content of Kofi Annan’s interview. Then the researcher groups an interview in several parts based on a specific topic. Next, she classifies and selects an illocutionary act. Then, she explains the reason of Illocutionary act which is used, the way of the speaker’s performs, and also the topic of each part of interview. The last the researcher account the result of illocutionary verb to cross check.

Based on the finding of this research, Illocutionary act used by Kofi Annan’s interview can be described as follows: Representative / Assertive which focuses on suggesting become dominant aspect in this thesis. It means that the speaker is committed to the truth of proposition.

As the result of this study, it is hoped to the future researchers to observe broader research of speech act, focusing on Illocutionary act because there are many other areas which are possible to be researched. The researcher also hopes to the further researchers to investigate interview which is used between two greats persons, for example: Kofi Annan as ex- Secretary General and Baim Ki Moon as Secretary General.