Lexical Item Analysis in Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake

Abstract

This study deals in the lexical item analysis in Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake at the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights. This study aimed to find out the types of lexical item that focus on content word, function word and clause found in the Speech by Anthony Lake, to identify that often occurs on Speech by Anthony Lake, and to elaborate the reason for occurrence of dominant type in Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lakeat the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights. Descriptive qualitative research was applied in this study. The data of research were taken from Speech by Anthony Lake, 84 sentences found in this speech. The data were analyzed by identifying the speech into three types of lexical item in classifying the content word, function word and clause, analyzing the data into the each types ofcontent word, function word and clause, calculating the types of content word, function word and clause, the most dominantly used in this speech, and finding the reason for occurrences of dominant type of content word, function word and clause on Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lakeat the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights. It was found that 76 noun (23.52%), for pronoun was 36 word (11.14%), for verb was 68 (21.06%), for adjective was 48 (14.86%), for preposition was 69 (21.36%) for adverb was 26 (8.06%). The most dominant types of content word used on Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lakeat the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights was noun 76 (23.52). It was found that 63 (29.44%) for determiners, 11 (5.14%) for degree words, 45 (21.03%) for auxilary verbs, 84 (39.25%) for conjunction and 11 (5.14%) for quantifier. The most dominant types of function word used on Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lakeat the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights was conjunction 84 (39.25%). It was found that 25 (28.41%) for dependent clause and 63 (71.59%) for independent clause. The most dominant types of clause used on Speech by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lakeat the Harvard Conference on Adolescent Rights was dependent clause 63 or 69.50%. And the reason for occurrence of dominant types because function word and cluase are frequently chosen in speech, they present the statements of reality from the point of onlookers. Then, the conjunction was placed as the dominant process type of lexical item in function word.