An Assertive Illocutionary Acts In The 2024 Presidential Candidate Debates: A Pragmatic Study

Abstract

Presidential candidates of the Republic of Indonesia. The method used in this research is a qualitative approach. Qualitative approach is an approach that examines scientific objects in the form of narrative texts. The data source of this research is the third round debate of presidential candidates on the Kompas TV YouTube channel which is currently being discussed and watched by the public with the most video views. The data collection techniques used in this research are observation technique, note-taking technique, and documentation technique. In this research, the writer found 62 assertive speech acts, which consist of 34 speech acts of stating, 10 speech acts of informing, 8 speech acts of reporting, 7 speech acts of concluding, 2 speech acts of suggesting, and 1 speech act of claiming. Based on the speech acts spoken, the most speech acts are speech acts with the function of stating as many as 34 speech acts because these speech acts contain facts, and opinions that want to be given to the interlocutors and the general public, while the least speech act is the speech act of claiming totaling 1 speech act. So, it can be said that assertive speech acts are speech acts that bind the speaker to the truth of what is said, therefore speakers must pay attention to their speech when speaking, especially to the general public.