IMPERATIVE SENTENCE FUNCTIONS IN THE SPEECH OF PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO ON THE MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19

Abstract

This paper contains imperative sentences in Indonesian contained in President Jokowi's speech regarding the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Imperative sentences are sentences that contain the intention of ordering or asking the speech partner to do or do as desired by the speaker. Imperative sentences can be in the form of an appeal, namely someone's invitation to do something, then there is a prohibition which is the opposite. During a pandemic like today, there are many statements given by public officials so that the public will know the real information. The data was obtained from a collection of speeches given by President Joko Widodo in a Youtube sharing video. Data were collected for approximately 3 months. Data is taken based on observations which are considered to support the data to be analyzed. The results of the analysis show that the function of the imperative sentence contained in President Joko Widodo's speech is the function of sentences in the form of ordinary imperatives, asking, inviting, encouraging, appealing and direct orders