A rhetorical analysis on Aa Gyms Religious Speeches

ABSTRACT

Every speaker and writer always makes efforts to have his speaking and writing successful and effective, therefore, they apply rhetoric to their speaking and writing. Moreover rhetoric is the art of effective communication. Hence all, rhetoric is a skill because it is an art, as skill rhetoric is concerned with the ability to understand, to communicate and to reason correctly by using appropriate choice language. In addition the rhetoric can use all of the elements conducted by theory of language process. For example, a religious preacher person whose job is concerned with religious affairs. In order words, continuously, religious preacher is skillful in using language in order to influence, to convey messages to the audience to believe in what a religious preacher says and finally take an action as the religious preacher might expect or to change people’s opinion on something.

This research describes and identifies the rhetoric of religious speeches used by Aa Gym’s in his book under titled “ Meraih Bening Hati Dengan Manajemen Qolbu ”. The description is focused on the function of rhetorical speech act, style and figure of speech. Moreover, the analysis of the rhetorical functions of speech acts is based on Searle’s typologies, such as assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. Furthermore, the analysis of the kinds of language style is based on Abram’s typologies of style, such as climatic, anticlimactic, parallelism, antithesis, repetition, and then figure of speech such as categories classify into four types on Me. Crimmon’s theory, such as metaphor, simile, allusion and personification.

The qualitative descriptive research is as the design of this study. The data are collected from Aa Gym’s books of religious. The writer describes and interprets the data based on the research problems.

As the result, the researcher finds two kinds of acts, such as directive acts, and commissive acts; directive acts are the most kind of speech acts used by Aa Gym. Moreover, the assertive, expressive acts and the declarative acts are not found in his speech process. On the style of language; the researcher finds that the characteristics language style such as, the anticlimactic, parallelism, antithesis, and repetition autistic; the climatic was not found in the study. Lastly, the researcher finds that there are only two figure of speech where as; simile, personification; metaphor and allusion are not found in the study. Furthermore, in the Aa Gym’s book of religious the figure of speech are dominated by simile than personification sentences.

Finally, the researcher suggests that for the next researchers, this research is aimed to give them stimulus to analyze the rhetoric applied in other areas, such as; advertisement, economy, politic, or to understand deeply about rhetoric with their study.