Directives Kinds of Speech Act

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id opposed the war in Iraq. The emergence of statements because Barack Obama knows that the war would be bad for the country and will afflicting for Americans. Thus, Barack Obama says that he opposed all kinds of war. The persuasive value in that sentence appear in the statement to give audiences attraction, that make convincing the supporters that Barack Obama will make America becomes a peace-loving country. It can make the audiences motivated to choose him in the election. The indicator of persuasive utterances in declarative utterances can be seen from the mode of his utterances which shape of declarative statements. 4.1.2. Functions of Persuasive Utterances Based on the data analysis, the researcher found 230 data about functions of persuasive utterances. The table below showed the data of functions of persuasive utterances which were divided into 16 functions. It presented in total number and frequency of each function. No Function of Persuasives Utterances First Period Second Period Total Percentage 1. Pressure - - 0,0 2. Command 1 3 4 1,7 3. Request - 12 12 5,2 4. Hope 1 6 7 3 5. Suggestion 14 23 37 16 6. Allow - 5 5 2,1 digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 7. Persuasion 19 21 40 17,3 8. Appeal 2 1 3 1,3 9. Invitation 10 7 17 7,3 10. Urging 2 - 2 0,8 11. Prohibition 4 5 9 3,9 12. Congratulation 2 - 2 0,8 13. Permission - - 0,0 14. Curse - 2 2 0,8 15. Convince 24 32 56 24,3 16 Assert 15 19 34 14,7 Total 230 100 The table above is made to answer the second question about functions of persuasive utterances used by Barack Obama in his political campaign speeches. From the table, we can see that function of convince is the dominant function used by Barack Obama in his political campaign speeches. It is the highest number with total 24,3 or 56 data from the total number of 230 functions of persuasive utterances found in the speeches. Barack Obama uses function of convincing to influence his audiences to vote him as a president. The second highest number is function of persuasion with the total of 17,3 or 40 data. Barack Obama also uses persuasion utterance to get many support from his audience, so he can be a president. Then, the researcher discusses the functions of persuasive utterances in detail and also takes some examples. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id

4.1.2.1. Command

Command is telling someone to do something that is desired by the speaker. Command included in the function of persuasive sentence because it can make someone to do what we say. In this study, the researcher found some data included in the function of command and the total of 4 data or 1,7 from 230 data. Here, the researcher described the example of persuasive sentence which has function of commanding. Excerpt 7 Datum 1a 1 Hello Springfield ... Look at all of you. Look at all of you. Goodness. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Giving all praise and honor to God for bringing us here today. Thank you so much. I am ... I am so grateful to see all of you. You guys are still cheering back there? [To audience on left.] The example above is sentences uttered by Barack Obama on his nomination to be president in his first period. His campaign speech hold on February 10, 2007 at Springfield, Illinois. It was the day of Barack Obama ’s campaign to announced his candidacy for president of America. So many people who came in the campaign. The sentence above was a sentence that has a function of command. Barack Obama told to his supporters to saw the crowd of people who gathered in his campaign to supported him. The fact about that can be seen from the sentence “Look at all of you. Look at all of you. ” Barack Obama is trying to influence the audience by showing that many people who want to support him as president, so that the audience will think that Barack Obama will be the winner in the election by the help of Americans. Barack