Abstract
This study is entitled Illocutionary Acts of Modal Auxiliary Can in HBO Series Game of Thrones. This study is aimed at analyzing and classifying the types of illocutionary act and its force through the modal auxiliary can in Game of Throne Series. Besides, this study also tries to explain the context of situation that supports the illocutionary act in Game of Throne Series.The library research was used to collect the data which carried modal auxiliary can from the TV series and descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts proposed by Searle (1979) about classification of illocutionary act was used to classify the data and classify them to the types of the acts with the purpose to know the force of the illocutionary acts. Theory of context of situation proposed by Halliday was applied to show how the context of situation (field of discourse, tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse) support the illocutionary acts found in Game of Throne Series.The result of the analysis showed that there were five types of illocutionary acts found in Game of Throne Series, they are; assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. The forces found in the analysis are; suggesting, telling, stating, asking, entreating, promising, attitudes, refusing, intending, complaining, defying, and declaring. 
Highlights
IntroductionYule (1996:4), the advantage of studying language through pragmatics is that one can speak about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of action that they are performing when they speak
Background of the Study According toYule (1996:4), the advantage of studying language through pragmatics is that one can speak about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of action that they are performing when they speak
The study of pragmatics is divided into several fields; this study only focuses on speech act
Summary
Yule (1996:4), the advantage of studying language through pragmatics is that one can speak about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of action that they are performing when they speak. Pragmatics is the study about the meaning of the context between the speaker and hearer. The people apply pragmatics because they have certain purposes, implicit or explicit in doing communication. By understanding the implicit meaning of the utterance, they will get more information that is unmentioned. Yule (1996:9) said that speech act is the study of the relationship between linguistic forms and the users of those forms. Speech act is the utterance which speaker says or speaker performs in every speech. Speech act performs when people make utterances such as apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal
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