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.