Speech Acts Found in Inaugural Addresses of Barack Obama

Abstract

This research analyzes the speech acts and language style found in inaugural
addressess of the presidents of The United States; Barack H. Obama. This
research aims at describing kinds and functions of speech acts, the compliance
and violation of cooperative principle. This research is descriptive qualitative
using socio-pragmatics approach. In collecting the data, it uses simak method
and note-taking technique. In analyzing the data, it uses contextual method
by using socio-pragmatics theory. In presenting the results of the analysis, it
uses informal method by verbal language. The results of the analysis showed:
(a) there were six kinds of speech acts found in the inaugural addresses,
specifically: assertive, directive, comissive, expressive, and declarative in which
declarative found in Obama’s second inaugural address with one data only (b)
the functions of speech acts found are: (i) to give opinion, (ii) to inform, (iii)
to give direction, (iv) to promise, (v) to express feelings (vi) to declare and to
(vii) maintain relationship.