An Analysis of Speech Act Classification of Nadiem Makarim Speech in United Nations Transforming Education Summit 2022

Abstract

To comprehend the meaning of specific speech, we require pragmatics skills, One of pragmatic branch is speech act. An action or intention of something execute via utterance by the speaker is speech act. Speech act can be found in our daily conversation. Not only in conversation, but also in a speech. This research was aimed to analyze the speech act performed by Nadiem Makarim when giving speech in United Nation Transforming Education Summit 2022. The objective of this study were classifying types of speech act in Nadiem Makarim speech and to find out the most dominant type of speech act in Nadiem speech. Descriptive qualitative method was applied in this research to analyze the data. Source of data was taken from Instagram post of Nadiem Makarim official account. There were total number of 34 utterances indicate illocutionary act with the specification; Representative 34 data (70,58%), expressive 2 data (5,88%), directive 3 data (8,82%), and commisive 5 data (14,70%) and there was no declarative type found in the data. The result showed that the most dominant type in Nadiem Makarim speech is representative. It could be conclude that the result also showed that Nadiem Makarim mostly intended to state in his speech