LANGUAGE STYLE OF JOKOWI’S POLITICAL SPEECH

This study deals with language style used by Jokowi in his inaugural speech. The data were taken from Jokowi’s utterances. This study employs qualitative descriptive design. The instruments used in this study are downloading and transcribing. The data of this study were Jokowi’s utterances which consist of rhetorical and figurative style. The data were analyzed by using the model of Miles and Huberman. The finding shows that there there are ten rhetorical styles found in Jokowi’s inaugural speech; alliteration, assonance, anastrophe, asyndeton, pleonasm, tautology, periphrases, prolepsis, hyperbole, and paradox Furthermore, there are eight figurative styles occur in Jokowi’s inaugural speech, namely simile, metaphor, allegory, personification, metonymy, antonomasia, irony, and synecdoche. The rhetorical styles keep maintaining the real meaning, and mostly the use of the style doesn’t give particular changing to the meaning of words uttered by Jokowi in his speech. However, the use of figurative style shows the non-literal meaning, since the meaning of the words form new meanings.The process of Jokowi’s uses rhetorical and figurative style in composing the inaugural speech is done by adding more words and explanation, reversing the position of subject, omitting some words replacing words or phrases, and referring to the grammatical pattern of sentence. The uses of rhetorical and figurative style in Jokowi’s inaugural speech are for some purposes, those are: to increase the listeners’ taste, to persuade the listeners, to increase the artistic effect, to clarify idea, to influence the listeners’ feeling and thinking, to emphasize idea of the speaker and to make the sentence congruent grammatically.