GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies Volume 22(4), November 2022 http://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2022-2204-11 eISSN: 2550-2131
ISSN: 1675-8021 194 The illocutionary force of the above fallacy at the sentence level is that of assertive, in which al-Maliki presupposes that other election candidates are not qualified to lead the country. Therefore people have to
be careful in their elections, which indicates the function of a "supposition. However, the context of speech 10 (refer to appendix Band the background information about the situation indicate that there was a process of downing others and mutual accusations between candidates. Among them was al-Maliki who attempted to gain more votes in the upcoming election by using a demeaning and accusatory tone with others. According to Ali
(2014), al-Maliki even accused some politicians of being supporters of terrorism. As a result, we can infer the following unexpressed premise he who takes responsibility should
be a defender of the country, a defender of the security institutions. Therefore, the inference of the unexpressed premise supports the conclusion The others are not defenders of these issues and they discourage those who confront terrorism. In that, the words of the utterance do not fit the direction of using a hypothetical speech act. Thus, the illocutionary force at the argumentation level is quite different from the illocutionary force at the sentence level, as al-Maliki indirectly accused other candidates of being disloyal. Hence, the illocutionary act of this fallacy can be seen in Table 3. TABLE 3. The illocutionary force of an emphatically putting forward
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