Illocutionary Speech Acts in Oprah Winfrey’s Motivational Speech: A Pragmatic Study

<p><em>Pragmatic studies have been widely conducted, but speech acts on motivational speeches were rarely investigated. Moreover, functions of illocutionary are received very limited scholarly attention. These gaps encouraging the researchers to conduct present analyze contained in Oprah Winfrey’s with two purposes. First, it is identify forms Oprah's speech. Second, also determines function It employed a qualitative and quantitative method for analysis. Then, collecting data, used note-taking as an instrument. In this regard, we watched listened five videos four times, then took notes any utterances containing acts. analyzing classified using theory from Searle (1969) employing analytical framework Leech (1993). The results show various delivering However, most tend be assertive rather than others, concerning functions, they collaborative. reason behind these dominances discussed paper.</em></p>