Abstract:
This research deals with the speech act which is mainly aimed to
investigate the use of speech acts by Rocky Gerung on video
presidential candidate debate at Cable News Network. This research
was applied by qualitative method. The results presented in form of
description the findings and the reseacher make accurate explanation
about the analysis that found in the research. The researcher found 28
speech acts and 3 types of speech act by Rocky Gerung on video
presidential candidate debate at Cable News Network with the duration
1 hour 5 minutes. The dominant types of speech acts that found by
Rocky Gerung on video presidential candidate debate at Cable News
Network were Directive acts and representatives act however
expressives and commisives act was not found.
