Speech Function Analysis In Hillary Clinton’s Speech

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