Commissive Speech Act in the Presidential Candidate Debate of R.I 2024

Abstract

The objectives of this research is to find the subtype of commissive speech acts used by presidential candidates and the most dominant subtype of commissive speech acts used by presidential candidates. The method used is Descriptive Qualitative Method. The data of this research are utterances that contain commissive speech acts. The data source is the video of the presidential candidates' debate. The instruments of this research are observation and documentation. The researcher used the theory of Miles, Huberman & Saldana (2014) to analyze the data and obtained the results that in the presidential candidate debate commissive subtypes were found, that is 5 subtypes of the 9 commissive subtypes proposed by Searle and Vanderveken (1985), the 5 subtypes were 31 promises, 1 commit, 1 threaten, 1 accept and 1 pledge. And the most dominant subtype in the presidential candidate debate is promise with a percentage calculation of 88.5% promise, 2.8% commit, 2.8% threaten, 2.8% accept and 2.8% pledge.