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AN ANALYSIS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.?S SPEECH ACTS IN HIS ?I HAVE A DREAM? SPEECH

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This research attempts to investigate and describe the phenomena of speech acts performed by Martin Luther King Jr in his ?I Have a Dream?speech. The researcher employs Langacker?s theory to analyze the kinds of Locutionary acts used by Martin Luther King Jr.. While Illocutionary acts the researcher uses Searle?s theory to analyze the kinds of illocutionary acts used by Martin Luther King Jr. And the last the researcher uses Austin?s theory to analyze perlocutionary acts used by Martin Luther King Jr..
The descriptive qualitative method is used to conduct this research. This research describes and explains speech acts performed by Martin Luther King Jr. in the speech. The data is taken from the transcript of Martin Luther King Jr.?s utterances in his ?I Have a Dream?speech. The researcher also employs content analysis to analyze the data.
Based on the finding the researcher found two kinds of locutionary actsperformed by Martin Luther King Jr.?sin his ?I Have a Dream?speech, they are; declarative and imperative. Declaratives form is mostly used by Martin Luther King Jr. which can be found in fifty-two utterances out of eighty-one. It means that Martin Luther King Jr. mostly conveys his utterances to explain, to assert and describe something. While the kind of illocutionary acts, the researcher found five kinds of illocutionary acts used by Martin Luther King Jr.. They are; declarative, representatives, directives, expressives and commissives. The researcher found that representative and directive are the most dominant illocutionary acts performed by Martin Luther King Jr which can be found in twenty-three utterances each, out of eighty-one utterances. He uses representative utterances to convey what he believes, assertions, statements of fact, clarification, conclusions, descriptions, and argumentation. And he uses directiveutterancesto get the hearers to do something in the form of commands, orders, requests, and suggestions. And the last the researcher found that the perlocutionary acts used by Martin Luther King Jr. is mostly intend to get the hearers know by his assertion, explanation, clarification, argumentation etc. which can be found in thirty-one utterances out of eighty-one utterances.
Finally, it is suggested to further researchers to analyze such conversations or dialogues in terms of investigating speech acts theory. Speech acts is still a broad topic, which needs to be analyzed with manydifferent approaches.

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00322-2011-BING

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