@thesis{thesis, author={Salsabila Luthfiya}, title ={EXPRESSIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP’S REMARKS ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN PRESS BRIEFING APRIL 23rd, 2020}, year={2021}, url={http://eprints3.upgris.ac.id/id/eprint/6630/}, abstract={Salsabila, Luthfiya. 2021. ? Expressive Illocutionary Acts Analysis of Donald Trump?s Remarks on COVID-19 Pandemic in Press Briefing April 23rd, 2020. Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Prof. Dr. Suwandi, M.Pd. Advisor II: Dr. Arso Setyaji, S.Pd., M.Hum. Keywords: Expressive Illocutionary Acts, Remark, Press Briefing Language is a tool that humans use to connect in society. It is a primary need that helps us share ideas, feelings, and anything that we want to express. Everyone has their own experiences and preferences that create ways of thinking, it results in how they express things. People don?t always simply express things literally, sometimes we need to express things in a particular way to get the intended message delivered. This is why some people even at the same time and place, each person may have different judgments toward an event and this is what pragmatics is concerned with, it is not only about how people use their language but also in which social context they use it. The researcher narrows down the topic to speech acts. An utterance can result in three kinds of acts, they are locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary. There is a category in illocutionary acts that the researcher was interested in, it is called expressive speech acts. Expressive speech acts are the category that Vanderveken has developed in his book Foundations of Illocutuonary Logic. For the research, the researcher decided to take Donald Trump?s remarks in an event that everyone will always remember, the press briefing that the White House held where Donald Trump delivered his remarks. The researcher is interested in Donald Trump?s remarks in the COVID- 19 press briefing issued on April 23, 2020. As the result, 110 utterances were identified as expressive illocutionary activities. In his statements, Donald Trump used thirteen different sorts of expressive illocutionary acts. They were 1) twenty six utterances welcoming, 2) seven utterances of thanking, 3) thirteen utterances of complimenting, 4) three utterances of complaining, 5) three utterances of reproving, 6) eight utterances of boasting, 7) twelve utterances of bragging, 8) three utterances of approving, 9) one utterance of deploring, 10) seven utterances of rejoicing, 11) three utterances of disapproving, 12) three utterances of blaming, and 13) ten utterances of praising. As a result, the researcher advises that the teacher should teach students about expressive illocutionary acts by providing examples from real-life cultural and social contexts, such as those offered in Donald Trump's press briefing remarks.} }