Abstract:
This study deals with the use of commissive utterance in Hillary Clinton’s
speech. The objectives of the study were to find out the types of commissive
utterance, to explain the use of commissive utterance and to investigate the
function of commissive utterance in Hillary Clinton’s speech. The source
of the data was Hillary Clinton’s speech and the transcribe. This study
applied descriptive qualitative method. The data were classified into types
of commissive utterance. They were analyzed based on the types of
commissive utterance. The study found that there are four types of
commissive utterance, namely: promises, pledges, threats and vows. There
are 62 commissive utterance in 262 speeches. The findings of this study
showed that of 9 promises, 19 pledges, 14 threats and 20 vows. The most
dominant was vows because the speaker in this speech mostly gave the
promise to do something in future action. It means that, she really want to
promise with USA’s citizens so that USA’s citizens choosed her in political
campaigns because she had made a big promise and she assumed his
promise was really better than other speaker. That’s why commissive
utterance mostly vows in Hillary Clinton speech
