Abstract
This research aims to describe the types of illocutionary acts used by Indonesian athletes in Instagram caption in Asian Games 2018, and to find out the type of illocutionary acts which is mostly used by the Indonesian athletes. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The source of data is the Instagram accounts used by Indonesian Asian Games Athletes. The data are in the form of Indonesian athletes’ 24 written utterances and categorized into types of illocutionary act based on Yule’s theory. Based on data analysis, the finding shows there are four types of illocutionary acts used by Indonesian athletes in Instagram caption in Asian Games 2018, namely representatives (14), expressives (7), directives (2), and commissive (1). Representative is mostly used by Indonesian athlete in Instagram caption in Asian Games 2018.
Highlights
Athletes as the social creature do the communication as well as human beings
Types of Illocutionary Acts used by Indonesian Athletes in Instagram Caption in Asian Games 2018
A sample of utterance that belongs to representatives type use by Indonesian athletes in the Instagram caption below
Summary
Athletes as the social creature do the communication as well as human beings. The communication could be done through social media. As the development of technology, social media becomes famous in this era. The caption contains what they think, they feel, they believe, their achievement, principle and condition. They were competed in Asian Games 2018 that attract many eyes of the people. The caption they wrote not just a caption. 47) said, “in attempting to express themselves, people do produce utterances containing grammatical structures and words, they perform actions via those utterances.”. As Yule (1996, p. 47) said, “in attempting to express themselves, people do produce utterances containing grammatical structures and words, they perform actions via those utterances.” called as illocutionary acts
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