persuading, requesting and demanding. Persuading is the most often to be performed in the form of directives by him through all his apology speeches.
The two tables give the same data findings on the third rank of occurence in the form of expressives. Expressives are those kinds of speech
acts that represent the feeling of the speakers. In I Misled, illocutionary acts based on the rank of occurence were performed in regretting, apologising,
greeting, loving, and thanking. Regretting is the most often to be performed by the speaker. Meanwhile, in I Have Sinned, the speaker performed more
varied feeling of thanking, regretting, apologising, greeting, welcoming, and loving. Thanking is eventually the most to be carried out by President
Clinton as an expression of his gratitude towards his fellow citizens for their endless care.
2. The data findings of the arrangement of President Clinton’s classical
rhetoric speech presented in apology speeches I Misled and I Have
Sinned.
The next data findings are related to the arrangements of clasical rhetoric speech presented in President Clinton‘s apology speeches I Misled
and I Have Sinned. There are introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, and conclusion. The researcher found significant
difference in section proof between two apology speeches delivered by President Clinton. Those are classified in details by the researcher in the
form of tables as shown in Table 6 and Table 7.
Table 6. The data findings of the arrangement of President Clinton’s classical rhetoric speech presented in the apology speeche
I Misled
No. Arrangement
Frequency
1. Introduction
4 2.
Statement of Facts 6
3. Division
1 4.
- Common Proof - Defensive Proof
7 5
Total Proof 12 5.
Refutation 5
6. - Common Conclusion
- Defensive Conclusion 7
1 Total Conclusion 8
Total of arrangement occurences 36
Table 7. The data findings of the arrangement of President Clin ton’s
classical rhetoric speech presented in the apology speech I
Have Sinned No.
Arrangement Frequency
1. Introduction
5 2.
Statement of Facts 8
3. Division
2 4.
Proof 13
5. Refutation
3 6.
Conclusion 12
Total of arrangement occurences 44
The tables above show a division of the arrangement used in apology speeches delivered by President Clinton entitled I Misled and I Have Sinned.
Both showed almost the same quantity of occurences in each part of the arrangement. However, what make them different lays on the content. In I
Misled , proofs were presented a lot by the speaker, however there were 5
proofs showing a lot of self-defense for the speaker himself instead of giving more elaboration on apology purposes. On the contrary, I Have
Sinned gave more elaboration on its proof, showing the purpose of
apologising. Further details are presented in the discussion section.
B. Discussion
