Abstract
Expressive speech act is a type of speech act that functions to express a speaker's psychological attitude towards a situation. The novel My Lecturer My Husband is a novel containing education, love, sadness, and loyalty, so it is very interesting to study and serve as an example of novel learning in schools. This study aims to identify and describe expressive speech acts through the characters. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The data of this research are in the form of the utterances of the characters in the novel. The techniques used are reading and note-taking techniques. The results of this study indicate that the expressive speech acts in the novel My Lecturer My Husband consist of expressive speech acts in the form of: a) apologizing in the context of making mistakes; b) expressing gratitude in the context of gratitude for the speaker's good deeds; c) praising in the context of praising the beauty and good looks of the speaker; d) blaming in the context of blaming a friend for following wrong advice; e) protest in the context of refusing an arranged marriage; f) mocking in the context of taunting Lecturers as dry chamois; f) complaining in the context of being given multiple assignments by the lecturer.
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