REQUEST STRATEGIES ON BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH

This Study deals to find out Request Strategies on Barack Obama Speech. The objectives of this research were to find out: 1) the types of request strategies on Barack Obama’s speech. 2) how the request strategies are used on Barack Obama’s speech. 3) the reason why the request strategies are used on Barack Obama’s speech. The source of this research is a speech of Barack Obama. The data of this research are the first political victory speech on 4 November 2008 and second political victory speech on 7 November 2012. The research design was qualitative research design. The instruments of data collection used document transcription from video recorded of political victory speeches of the president of the United States Barack Obama. The result reveals that (1) The types of Request Strategies on Barack Obama’s speech are Mood Derivable, Performatives, Obligation Statements, Want Statements and Mild Hints. (2) The request Strategies on Barack Obama victory speeches used positive politeness strategy. (3) The request strategies on Barack Obama’s speech, Obama used the context of expectation that can make the hearers trust in him. This context aims through the social interactions in the real life.