This is a contrastive study comparing the use of English modal verb will in Bush’s victory speech with
the use of Indonesian adverb akan in SBY’s victory speech. The aims of this study are (1) to indentify
type of speech acts contained in the English modal verb will in Bush’s speech and in the Indonesian
adverb akan in SBY’s speech; (2) to identify percentage of the use of speech acts contained in the
English modal verb will as well as Indonesian adverb akan, and; (3) to identify tendency of the use of
direct speech act and indirect speech act through the use of English modal verb will and Indonesian
adverb akan by Bush and SBY. To achieve the aims of this study, the researcher employs the descriptive
analytical method and critical discourse analysis approach. The results of this study show that (1)
Bush employed English modal verb will to express directive speech act in the form of invitation as
well as assertives speech act in the form of assertion, prediction, and statement, while SBY employed
Indonesian adverb akan to express commissives speech act in the form of promise as well as declarative
speech act in the form of declaration; (2) 5
