ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN JOE BIDEN'S SPEECH IN MIDST OF THE UKRAINE AND RUSSIA CONFLICT = ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN JOE BIDEN'S SPEECH IN MIDST OF THE UKRAINE AND RUSSIA CONFLICT

This study aims to: 1) identify the categories of illocutionary acts found in the narrative speech by Joe Biden in the middle of the war conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and 2) analyze the prominent sorts of illocutionary acts in Joe Biden's speech.
This research uses a descriptive qualitative research methodology. The research data was collected from the narrative text of Joe Biden's speech which was officially distributed on the White House website. The category of illocutionary acts used the theory from Austin and then refined by John R. Searle. Data analysis was carried out in many steps, first gathering the narrative from Joe Biden's speech and then solving and summing up the speech acts. The second stage was to investigate each speech act and determine the illocutionary act. Last, calculate the percentage of types of illocutionary acts and establish the dominate forms of illocutionary acts in Joe Biden's speech.
Based on the research results, five types of illocutionary acts are found, namely Assertive, Commissive, Directive, Declaration, and Expressive in Joe Biden's speech. Furthermore, the percentage values for each type of illocutionary act are found as follows; Assertive (51.29%), Commissive (17.94%), Expressive (7.70%), Directive (12.82%), and Declaration (10.25%).

Keywords: speech, Joe Biden, illocutionary act, Russia, Ukraine.