Commissive Speech Act in Joe Biden’s Selected Speech
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This study deals with analyzing the presidential victory speech selected on November 8, 2020, since it has the purpose of being a piece of discourse with specific goals from a pragmatic perspective. It tackles the use of the main types presented by Searle (1979), who classified commissive speech acts into six types: promise, vowe, refusal, pledge, commit, and offer. Results show that there are three types of illocutionary acts: promise, vowe, and offer. The study tries to answer the following question: (1) What are the main functions of commissive in Joe Biden’s selected victory speech on November 8, 2020? (2) How is commissive conveyed in Biden’s victory speech?
The study aims at classifying the functions of commissive in Biden’s victory speech. Analyzing how the commissive speech acts conveyed in Joe Biden’s victory speech The researcher chooses eight Extracts were selected from Biden’s victory speech. The findings show that the overall relative frequency for selected types of promises commissive speeches is (4), offer (2), and vowe (2). The results show that Biden relied more on utterance (promise) than other commissive speech acts since he committed to some future actions.
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