Abstract:
The study dealt with the analysis of commissive speech acts realized in Jakarta
Gubernatorial candidate debate. The objectives of this study were to investigate
the sub-categories of commissive speech act used in gubernatorial candidate
debate and to describe its strategy. This study applied the qualitative research with
using content and analysis design. The data were gotten from the debate
utterances about commissive speech act. Those data were analyzed by using Miles
and Huberman analysis model including data reduction, data display, conclusion
and verification. The research finding showed that there were six sub-categories
of commissive speech act found in this research namely pledging, refrain,
offering, promising, intending and refusing. It was also found that there were two
strategies of commissive speech act used in Jakarta Gubernatorial candidate
debate, those were direct and indirect speech act. In conclusion, not all the subcategories of commissive speech act were realized in this research, while in terms
of strategy, the two kinds of commissive speech act strategy were applied.
