f. Conclusion peroration
The goal of conclusion is to sum up the argument as forcefully and as memorably as possible. If it is necessary to involve emotion, it is
suggested to do it that way. The example is below: This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt too many
innocent people. SP2202:33-02:40
The example above is showing how President Clinton took a side on many parties that had been hurt because of his misbehaviour
scandal. President Clinton concluded involving an emotional state of what was the meaning of being too much in everything.
After all, President Clinton had changed his attitude towards the scandal. It started on January 26, 1998, he testified under oath to the
accusations brought up by Kenneth Starr and he denied the affair by stating, ―I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to
listen to me. I‟m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky
.‖ This denial continued for seven months as Starr gathered evidence of the relationship and investigated
his obstruction of justice. Evidence of perjury in his testimony would be grounds for impeachment.
By August 17 and September 11, 1998, President Clinton was ready to admit and apologize for his sexual misconduct, and he needed to rally
the support of the nation in understanding his innocence in the perjury accusations. He admitted his inappropriate relationship with Monica
Lewinsky , denying obstruction of justice or any other crime, and asking
everyone to move on and turn their attention to issues of public interest. Eventhough, the nation‘s perceptions remain divided, 63 of the public
felt that the nation should move beyond the scandal, while 18 felt that President Clinton should resign, and 12 felt that he should be
impeached. This showed that the majority of the nation responded positively to what he said. According to the post-speech poll, the
majority of the public accepted this proposal to forgive and forget. The researcher found out that American citizens are literate to read
the situation surrounding. They know how to respond speeches. Speeches have significant part in their lives. In conclusion, they know
how to respond President Clinton‘s apology speeches. The first apology speech, I Misled, had been evaluated and they thought that the speech
was not contrite enough but that would be very different from the second apology speech, I Have Sinned, that they heard more sincerely.
Eventhough President Clinton faced a lot of controversial issues, what remained the same was the love of American citizens towards him.
He left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any American president since World War II. Even more, under his
presidency, the United States of America enjoyed the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in recent history, high home
ownership, low crime rates, and a budget surplus reported by The Congressional Budget Office between the years 1998 and 2000, the last
three years of his presidency, the years after the scandal blown up and resolved. It is proven that the apology speech delivered by President
Clinton at that time, especially the second one, really affected the decision of his American citizens to see and support him in the last
presidential terms.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
Based on the findings and discussion, the conclusions could be drawn as the following:
1. Related to the first objective of the research, which is to identify and
analyse the kinds of speech acts in terms of illocutionary acts delivered by President Clinton in his apology speeches I Misled and I Have
Sinned , there are 4 types of illocutionary acts employed. They are
representatives, commisives, directives, and expressives. Representatives performed by President Bill Clinton were used for
convincing, admitting, protesting, blaming, insisting, refuting, and opening. Convincing was the most often to be performed in the first
apology. In President Clinton‘s speech I Have Sinned, the table points out that the common speech acts in the speech was also
representatives. However, the difference occured in the kinds of illocutionary acts performed by the speaker. Based on the level of
occurence, those acts were convincing, admitting, describing, insisting, and opening. Prominently, protesting, blaming, and refuting were not
performed as the speaker did in the first apology I Misled. Commisives were used for warning, promising, and threatening.
Warning was the most often to be performed by the speaker.
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