Directness and Literalness of Directive Speech Act between Lecturers and Students in Teaching Learning Process (A Case Study of Pragmatics at STKIP PGRI West Sumatera)

Abstract

Every utterance consists of a form and a function. Both of them can have one message or even have a difference message. One of the speech act categories is expressive act. It means to ask someone to do something. The method of collecting data used non participant observation. Analyzing the data used pragmatic identity method. The theories are from Austin about the types of speech act and Searle and Wijana about types of speech Act. The research shows that the form and function can be similar or different. Only three types of the speech act occur on the site.