Tuesday, 12 May 2015

AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN HABIBIE AND AINUN IN THE FILM ENTITLED HABIBIE AND AINUN 2012


Jurnal Bahasa InggrisThis study aimed to analyze the types of speech acts and the classification of illocutionary speech acts occurred in the conversation of Habibie and Ainun in the film entitled Habibie and Ainun 2012. This study was a descriptive qualitative done on naturalistic inquiry on social phenomenon. The data were analyzed based on the theory of the types of speech acts proposed by Yule (1996), direct and indirect speech acts. The analysis of the classification of illocutionary speech acts proposed by Searle (1977) which consists of, representative, directive commissive, expressive and declaration. Findings of this study showed there were 196 utterances of type of speech acts where the type of direct speech acts were 129 utterances (66%), meanwhile the type of indirect speech acts were 67 utterances (34%). The five classifications of illocutionary speech acts found that there were totally 158 utterances analyzed as illocution where representatives were 90 utterances (51%), commisives were 39 utterances (25%), directive were 24 utterances (15%), expressive were 15 utterances (9%), and there was no declaration (0%). This study showed that the direct speech acts were the most dominant type of speech acts rather than the type of indirect speech act. In the types of illocutionary speech acts, representatives were the most dominant rather that the others types of illocutions. The implication of this study is to learn and master pragmatics, especially in the theory of speech acts to be able to understand the speaker‟s intention so that the communication expressed is able to be fulfilled.



Key Words: Types of Speech Acts, Analysis, Film of Habibie and Ainun entitled Habibie and 




Ainun 2012.

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