Congratulation Kinds of Speech Act
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sentence  with  authoritative  tone  and  vigorous,  so  that  anyone  who  hears  that  will think Barack Obama deserves to be president of the United States. Moreover, Barack
Obama also addes the sentence “I do not want to spend the next year or the next four
years re-fighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s ” that will make the listener
feel  more  confident  because  if  Barack  Obama  becomes  president  then  he  will  not waste time  and will fight  to  make  America  be  better, and he will not  let the United
States get failure experienced as before. 4.1.2.14. Assert
Assert is something that expresses the truth of an event. Assert including the function of persuasive sentence because if we declare a truth to  others, then we can
change the mindset of the people and make it same with our mindset. In this research, the researcher found the data included in the function of assert and the total data are
34 or 14.7 from 230 data. Here, the researcher describes an example of a sentence that has a function of assert.
Excerpt 20 Datum 1b  2
A  little  less  than  one  year  from  today,  you  will  go  into  the  voting booth  and  you  will  select  the  President  of  the  United  States  of
America. Now, heres the good news - the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot. The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be
on  the  ballot.  Weve  been  trying  to  hide  that  for  a  long  time. Everybody has a black sheep in the family. The era of Scooter Libby
justice, and Brownie incompetence, and Karl Rove politics will finally be over.
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The example above is sentences uttered by Barack Obama on his nomination to be president in his first period. His campaign speech hold on November 10, 2007
at Des Moines, Iowa. In the quote speech above, Barack Obama states the truth that a few months
Americans  will  hold  presidential  elections.  The  sentence  above  to  give  information that correspond with  the reality  to  the people. Barack Obama said  that there will be
no names such as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in a ballot. The purpose of the sentence  uttered  is  to  tell  people  that  they  should  choose  him  as  president.  Barack
Obama also said “The era of Scooter Libby justice, and Brownie incompetence, and Karl  Rove politics will  finally be over
” it means that if he becomes president of the periods of their leadership will end and America will have a new future.
                