ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN THE MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH “TED TALKS: THE SECRET OF LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE”

Abstract

This research is conducted to analyze speech acts typed on motivational speech performed by Lýdia Machová on Ted Talks. The reseacrh describes the type of speech act by John R. Searle. The objectives of the research are to identify types of speech acts found in the video “The Secret of Learning A New Language” and the second one is to find out the dominant types of speech acts in the video “The Secret of Learning A New Language”. The research used descriptive qualitative. There are 102 data that are analyzed using John R. Searle’s speech act theories. The research findings of this final project can be seen in the following: There are 5 types of speech acts found in the video “The Secret of Learning a New Language”, the types are: representative or assertive, directive, declarative, expressive, and commissive. Which are the representative or assertive type found 64 utterances (62.8%), the directive found with 22 utterances (21.62%), and the declarative type found 2 utterances (2.02%), the expressive type found 8 utterances (7.86%), and the commissive found 6 utterances (5.94%). The assertive or representative type is the most dominant type of speech act performed by Lýdia Machová is with 64 utterances (62.8%) from 102 data.