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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter elaborates the conclusions and suggestions of the research. The conclusion is presented in the first part while the suggestions come next. Each part is explained below.

A. Conclusion

In reference to the research findings, the conclusion can be drawn as follows. There are four types illocutionary acts found in Jokowi’s selected speeches i.e. assertives, directives, commisives and expressives. Furthermore, the types of assertives consist of informing, convincing, questioning, describing, and stating. The kinds of directives include inviting and requesting. Commisives acts consist of promising and offering. The kinds of expressives are thanking, state of pleasure, greeting, saluting, and expression of feeling. Jokowi performed different types of illocutionary acts such as assertives, directives, commisives and expressives due to various reasons. Firstly, the reasons of performing assertive acts include socializing the nation’s agenda, ensuring that the audience are interested to collaborate with Indonesian government in realizing the nation’s projects, providing description obout a sea toll program, providing background information to the audience why changes should be undergone, making his speech attractive, putting an emphasis on a certain issue, and showing his optimism that he can lead Indonesia to be able to actively engaged in the global arena with all the streghts that Indonesia have. 82 Secondly, directives acts were performed since Jokowi might not be able to realize all his nation’s program without the support from investors and he wanted to show how potential Indonesia is. In addition, Jokowi wanted the audience to jointly work especially in the sector of bussiness and improved trust to the audience by solving the problems directly. Thirdly, the commisive acts were performed because Jokowi wanted to build the audience trust to his administration that it can be better than the previous one and he had many infrastructure projects which required a support from the investors. Also, Jokowi wanted the audience to have expectations from his administration that might lead to the joined prosperity. Fourthly, expressives acts were performed by Jokowi in his speech because he wanted to build rapport to the audience. Therefore, the speech flowed smoothly and the messages that he wanted to deliver could come across to the hearers mind. Also, he wanted to show his seriousness to the audience that he could bring Indonesia into a better nation. The dominant illocutionary acts in Jokowi’s speeches consist of assertives and commisives. Their frequencies are 52,1 and 28,7respectively. The assertive acts include informing, convincing, questioning, describing and stating. Among those types of assertive, informing shows the highest frequency. This implies that there is a lot of information presented by Jokowi through his speeches especially about the nation ’s agenda that will be implemented during his administration. With regard to this, the possible perlocutionary effects is that the audience will have a good understanding about the information that Jokowi presents. Consequently, it may bring many positive effects to Jokowi and the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 83 people of Indonesia in general. One of the effects is that the audience may collaborate with Jokowi ’s administration. Another dominant assertive act is describing. Based on the research findings, Jokowi described a rationale why they should perform changes. The possible effect of performing this act is that the hearers or audience may perform the changes especially in the economic sector since the condition in the world has changed. Instead of assertive, Jokowi’s speeches were dominated by commisives. Based on the research data, there are two different types of commisives which consist of promising and offering. The act of promising is more dominant than that of offering. The dominant act of promising may give a possible effect that the hearers may expect som ething from Jokowi’s government. The expectations provided by Jokowi may improve the optimism of the audience to do business in Indonesia.

B. Suggestions