This research focuses on the application of the illocutionary acts in the
speech text "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. The writer generated two
problem statements; to find the types of illocutionary acts that exist in the speech
text and to find the most frequent types. The theories used to proceed the research
are the speech act, the illocutionary act, the production of speech, and the political
speech theories. By using the descriptive method, the writer described the
application of the types of illocutionary acts in each sentence in the speech.
Therefore, the writer?s analysis resulted in the findings of all types of illocutionary
act in the speech text and the representatives type as the most frequent type.