Valency In Joko Widodo’s Speech At International Event

Abstract

This study deals with valency in Joko Widodo’s speech at International Event. It was aimed to investigate the kinds of valency used in Joko Widodo's speech and to find out the dominant kind of valency in Joko Widodo’s speech. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative design. The sources of data was taken from Joko Widodo’s speech at APEC CEO SUMMIT 2014. The data were analyzed by identifying the valency found in Joko Widodo’s speech at international event, classifying the text and classifying to types valency theory based on valency zero, valency one, and valency two, tabulating the types of valency found in Joko Widodo’s speech at international event, finding out the dominant type of valency .The result showed that there were 3 concepts of valency, namely valency zero, valency one, and valency two. There were 4 (10%) for valency zero, 10 (26%) for valency one, 25 (64%) for valency two. The most dominant type of valency in Joko Widodo’s speech was valency two in the amount of 25 (64%). It means that Joko Widodo gave explanation clearly and completely with the aim invite to someone to give the investment