Abstract:
This research discusses about speech Function Analysis In Hillary Clinton’s Speech. The
objectives of this research are to find out the types of speech function, the most dominant type of
speech function used, and the reason of the dominantly used. The research on this thesis was
carried by using descriptive qualitative. The data were taken from 1 speech of Hillary Clinton.
The data were analyzed and classified into four types of speech functions in the procedures
namely statement, question, offer, and command. There are 362 utterences from 1 speech of
Hillary Clinton. The findings indicated that there are Statement (328 utterances, 90.60 %),
Questions (15 utterances, 4.15 %), Offer (8 utterances, 2.21 %), Command (11 utterances,
3.04%). Statement as the most dominant type of speech function is used in Hillary Clinton’s
speech it’s mean give or state information, the way of the speaker’s to deliver the information
about the America country problem and how to solve it, the speaker planning for America, and
give thanks for the audience in America to audience by using statement
