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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research focused in the application of the illocutionary act on the
speech of Kevin Michael Rudd when he delivered the speech about the apology to
the stolen generation. The writer formed three statements of the problems; finding
the types of illocutionary acts which occur in the speech, analyzing types of
illocutionary acts containing the apologies of Kevin Michael Rudd, and the and
analyzing the way the speech delivered. The theories used to do the research are
speech act, illocutionary act which contains Representative, Directive,
Commissive, Expressive, Declarative, and the theory of the political speech. By
using the descriptive qualitative method, the writer described the application of
the types of illocutionary acts in each utterance in the speech. Thus, the writer
analysis resulted in the finding of all types of illocutionary acts in the speech and
the representative as the most frequent type used.