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Politics is not only controlled by male but also female. Commissive speech acts often happen in presidential campaign speeches. This research aims to analyze the comparison of commissive speech acts in English speeches by Trump and Warren presidential candidate viewed from gender differences. Qualitative method is applied in this research. The data are analyzed by using commissive speech acts from Searle (2005), Cutting (2002) and talk theory from Tannen (1991). The findings show that Trump used seven types of commissive: promise, guarantee, pledge, contract, offering, threaten, and refusal. The functions are giving solution, convincing, insulting, threatening, showing care, and encouraging. Warren used three types of commissive: promise, guarantee, and threaten. The functions are giving solution, convincing, threatening, and showing care. There are three similarities of commissive between them: promise, guarantee, and threaten. Promise is the most frequent type used by them. Viewed...

Directive shows a strong relationship between speaker and hearer moreover in the textbook that used by the students and teacher in the teaching and learning process. This research investigated the directive speech acts used in Bahasa Inggris textbook for senior high school grade XI. Descriptive qualitative of document study method was implied in this research. The source of data in this research is Bahasa Inggris textbook for senior high school grade XI published by Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. Document analysis was used to collect the data. The steps are looking for the English textbook entitle Bahasa Inggris textbook for senior high school grade XI, then reading the textbook and analyze the directive speech acts in the English textbook. The researcher used theory of Kreidler (1998) to analyze the type of directive speech acts. In this research, the researcher applied the technique of data analysis based on Miles, et al. (2014) theories. The data were analyzed thro...

This research aimed to find the kinds of language variation and the reasons of code choice used by the students of Ma’had Walisongo. It is descriptive qualitative research by filling questionnaire, doing interview, recording and documentation. The data were identified according to the theory of Jendra to identify the kinds of language variation and Holmes to identify the factor that can influence code choice by students of Ma’had. From the research, I found senior students using Indonesian, Javanese, English, and Arabic in their activities. There are twelve kinds of language variation used by them, those are individual and societal, regional and temporal, native and non-native, spoken and written, formal and informal, standard and non-standard, upper and lower standard, women and men’s, restricted and elaborated, ethnic, professional field, and secret language varieties. They used code choice based on setting, participant, topic and function for showing respect, politeness, solidari...