Abstract:
Speech act is one of the most important things in doing communication. It
contains not only meaningful information but also instruction for someone to do
something. This research tried to analyze about speech act. The aim of this study
is to describe the types of speech acts and the most dominant types in the speech
from president Joko Widodo about Covid-19. The type of this research is
descriptive qualitative method. So, the writer used documentation method to
collect the data. The data are the utterances containing speech acts which are
found from President Joko Widodo’s speeches. From the analysis of the data, the
researcher finds five types of Illocutionary acts based on Searle theory. There are
31 speech acts uttered by 2 speeches from president Joko Widodo about Covid-19
with the frequencies as follow : Assertives 22,58 %, Directives 48,39 %,
Commissives 9,68 %, Declaratives 16,13 % and Expressive 3,22 % respectively..
The most dominant types of Illocutionary act is directives. Finally, the findings
showed almost all types of Illocutionary acts contained commands and requests
from president Joko Widodo to handle the pandemic Covid-19
