Language is important in human communication, and speech act is speech and action where is relate with language. Speech is the utterance that occurs and act means is action. The aim of this study is to identify the locutionary act and the types of corresponding illocutionary acts that used by Ivanka Trump’s speech in 2020 Republican Nation Convention. The writer uses descriptive qualitative design to gain the research. The writer collects the data from the video content on YouTube named NBC News and website named ABC News blog as speech transcript. From the analysis, the researcher found 85 utterances of Ivanka Trump’s speech. The researcher identifies the locutionary act into three categories. They are 95.3% as declarative, 2.35% as interrogative and 2.35% as imperative. Since in this research consist of many statements, so the most dominant is declarative. The reason is because declarative is to denote statements typically ended by period. Meanwhile, the researcher also identifies the types of illocutionary act. They are 47% as representative or assertive, 4% as directive, 7% as commisive, 28% as expressive and 14% as declaration. The most dominant in types of illocutionary act is representative or assertive, because the utterances dominant with statements.

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