Review of The Related Studies
President William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton’s Apology Speeches I Misled And I Have Sinned
”. She used Searle’s theory of Speech Acts as the basis of the analysis of the study. She analyzed the types of speech acts and
classical rhetoric in the speeches. The study revealed the second speech was more effective and convincing rather than the first speech which was still
full of emotion of embarrassment and anger. Another similar research is the research conducted by Retno Rahma
Safitri, a Sarjana Pendidikan degree student of English Education Department of State University of Yogyakarta, in 2014 entitled
“Pragmatics Analysis on Speech Acts and The Arrangements of Classical Rhetoric in
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor“. She analyzed the types of speech acts and the arrangements of classical rhetoric in the speech. The
study revealed the speech which lasted only for 7 minutes was very effective. This speech was even effective to trigger the World War II.
The researches about a pragmatic analysis above are similar to this research because they also analyzed the pragmatics especially speech acts
and the arrangement of classical rhetoric. However, what makes this research different with those studies is about the speaker who gave the
speech. In Annisa and Retno’s research, the speeches were popular mostly
because they were spoken by the president of the USA at that time. Meanwhile, in this research the speech was popular simply because of the
language that was used by the speaker. The speaker was not American but British and she neither belonged to any political positions nor involved in
any political actions. However, her speech can trigger many influences. One of them was creating the wake-up calls from the international society.