Abstract:
To comprehend the meaning of specific speech, we require pragmatics skills, One
of pragmatic branch is speech act. An action or intention of something execute via
utterance by the speaker is speech act. Speech act can be found in our daily
conversation. Not only in conversation, but also in a speech. This research was
aimed to analyze the speech act performed by Nadiem Makarim when giving speech
in United Nation Transforming Education Summit 2022. The objective of this study
were classifying types of speech act in Nadiem Makarim speech and to find out the
most dominant type of speech act in Nadiem speech. Descriptive qualitative method
was applied in this research to analyze the data. Source of data was taken from
Instagram post of Nadiem Makarim official account. There were total number of
34 utterances indicate illocutionary act with the specification; Representative 34
data (70,58%), expressive 2 data (5,88%), directive 3 data (8,82%), and commisive
5 data (14,70%) and there was no declarative type found in the data. The result
showed that the most dominant type in Nadiem Makarim speech is representative.
It could be conclude that the result also showed that Nadiem Makarim mostly
intended to state in his speech
