AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLES IN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO’S STATE SPEECH DELIVERED ON 16TH AUGUST 2021

Abstract

The language style employed when giving a speech can have an impact on how well it is received. The ability to capture readers' and listeners' attention and influence their thinking depends on the language style pattern used. As a result, this study aims to determine the language style that predominates in President Joko Widodo's state speech and to analyze the sentence structure of those language styles. To conduct this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative methodology. The text of Joko Widodo's state speech was obtained from the Republic of Indonesia's Ministry of Youth and Sports' official website and served as the study's main source of data. The informant was not essential because the data was all text-based. The results of this study show that there are five different linguistic idioms in the text of President Joko Widodo's official speech. The five language linguistic themes are repetition, anti-climax, parallelism, and antithesis. From the text of the state speech, a total of 26 data were collected. The data consist of 7 climax data (27%), 2 anti-climax data (8%), 2 parallelism data (8%), 4 antithesis data (15%), and 11 repetition data (42%). The dominant use of repetition style also covers anaphora, epistrophe and anadiplosis categories.