Language Style and Illocutionary Speech Acts 30 LANGUAGE STYLE AND ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS ANALYSIS OF BIDEN'S SPEECH AT THE EID AL-FITR CELEBRATION IN 2022 Ahmad Ismail Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Email: 20101050024@student.uin-suka.ac.id Fuad Arif Fudiyartanto Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Email: fuad.fudiyartanto@uin-suka.ac.id Article History Abstract The discussion of Islamic topics in the Western world, especially within political contexts, holds significant public interest. This paper aims to investigate President Biden's speech during the Eid Al-Fitr celebration at the White House's east room in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2022. His speech is examined through Keraf’s language styles theory and Searle’s illocutionary speech act perspective. A qualitative approach was applied in this study. The analysis found five distinct language styles utilized by Biden: climax, anticlimax, parallelism, antithesis, and various forms of repetition (epizeuxis, anaphora, epistrophe, mesodiplosis, and anadiplosis). Biden's strategic use of these styles aims to emphasize crucial messages and to embrace the Muslim American community. Additionally, by applying Searle’s theory, Biden's speech predominantly encompasses assertive and expressive illocutionary acts, emphasizing Eid Al-Fitr as a sign of the end of Ramadan and expressing his gratitude for the contributions of Muslim Americans to the nation. As a result, this research sheds light on the language styles employed by political leaders and their underlying intentions in delivering speeches. Received: 22/09/2023 Reviewed: 06/10/2023 Accepted: 01/11/2023 Keywords: Language Style; Illocutionary Speech Acts; Biden’s Speech; Eid Al- Fitr; Muslim Americans Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Introduction Political speech is one of the intriguing objects to be studied by language researchers since politicians have their intentions, goals, and expressions when delivering their speeches. Thus, it is significant for the listeners to understand the intention of the politicians who convey the speech. According to Petriandy and Marlina (2018), this kind of phenomenon is scientifically studied in the linguistics field through a pragmatic perspective that focuses on the speaker’s meaning. The objects of this pragmatic analysis can include any kind of conversation in either written or spoken texts such as the news media and oral speeches (Abushihab, 2015).