The Commissive Acts in Joe Biden’s Inauguration Speech
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37296/esci.v4i1.66Abstract
The commissive acts in the inauguration speech by Joe Biden were identified in this descriptive qualitative research. The data used Cruse (2006) theory to analyze the types of commissive act. The data for this research was collected by using an observational method and a non-participation technique. Then, the data was analyzed using the pragmatic identity method and pragmatic competence in equalizing. The researchers identified in 15 utterances that uttered by Joe Biden in the presidential inauguration speech. The utterances consisted of 5 types of commissive acts. Those were 5 acts of promising, 1 act of offering, 3 acts of vowing, 2 acts of contracting, and 4 acts of pledging. Furthermore, from all those types, the acts of promising became the most dominant among the other types of commissive act from the 15 utterances that had been identified.
References
Afdhal, et al. 2023. Pengantar Ilmu Komunikasi. Penerbit CV.Gita Lentera
BBC.com. (2021). Full transcript of Joe Biden’s inauguration speech. Www.Bbc.Com.
Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (Third edit). SAGE Publications, Inc.
Cruse, A. (2006). A glossary of semantics and pragmatics. Edinburgh University Press.
Cruse, D. A. (2000). Meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford University Press, USA.
Kristina, L. N., & Ambalegin. (2019). Illocutionary Acts in President Obama’s Election Night Speech. BASIS, 6, 10.
Lap, N. T. (2019). Offering in English and Vietnamese. HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 16(2), 19.
Levinson, S. C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
Martinez, N. D. C. (2013). Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. In Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0642-8
Martínez, N. D. C. (2013). Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
Mufiah, N. S., & Rahman, M. Y. N. (2018). Speech Acts Analysis of Donald Trump’s Speech. PROJECT, 1, 8.
Sami, S. (2015). The differences between threat and promise acts. IRJHSS, 1(3), 8.
Searle, J. R., & Vanderveken, D. (1985). Foundations of illocutionary logic. Cambridge University Press.
Siregar, T. M. (2021). Critical discourse analysis on Joe Biden’s elected president speech. Journal of Applied Studies in Language, 05(01), 8.
Sudaryanto. (2015). Metode dan aneka teknik analisis bahasa. Duta Wacana University Press.
Ulum, M., Sutopo, D., & Warsono. (2018). A comparison between Trump’s and Clinton’s commissive speech act in America’s presidential campaign speech. English Education Journal, 8(2), 8.
The Meaning of the Tawan Basi in Vehicles: Case Study of the Nagari Silantai Community Sumpur Kudus District Sijunjung Regency. (2024). Social Integrity Journal, 1(1), 1-10. https://triedu.or.id/sointeg/index.php/about/article/view/9
Vanderveken, D., & Kubo, S. (2001). Essays in speech act theory. John Benjamins.
Webster, M. (1984). Webster’s new dictionary of synonyms: a dictionary of discriminated synonyms with antonyms and analogous and contrasted words. Merriam Webster,U.S.
