The Use of Honorifics By Barack Obama in His Campaign and Presidential Inauguration’s Speeches

Abstract

The present study aims to find out the honorifics used by Barack Obama in his two speeches of campaign and two speeches of inauguration. The method uses is qualitative that is by collecting the honorifics found in the four speeches. All the honorifics classified based on the types of honorifics they are naming and title and pronoun. For naming and title there are 38 honorifics are found in the two speeches of campaign and 24 honorifics are found in the other two speeches of presidential inauguration. For pronoun, found some kinds of pronoun such as: subject pronoun, object pronoun, possessive adjective, possessive pronoun, and reflexive pronoun. The number of honorifics in presidential campaign is more than the number of honorifics in presidential inauguration. There are also values in every type of honorifics used by Barack Obama in his four speeches, such as: respect, intimacy, and solidarity.