Illocutionary Speech Act Research Articles

Illocutionary Speech Acts on Stickers as Promotional Media of Mangroves Ecotourism in Bangkalan, Madura

The primary goal of this research is to find the lingual forms and meanings of the language in vehicle stickers used as promotional media to increase ecotourism possibilities throughout the Mangroves Ecotourism area of Bangkalan by means of illocutionary speech acts. In this research, the descriptive and qualitative research methods were used. The data for this research came from a form of vehicle sticker that was first investigated to promote Mangrove Ecotourism in Bangkalan, Madura. The following Mangrove Ecotourism sites were included in this research: Labuhan Mangrove Education Park Bangkalan, Mangrove Martajasah, and Mangrove Tajungan, Kamal. The research carried out adopted George Yule's pragmatic theory and J.R Searle's illocutionary speech act as the theoretical framework, which provides a good explanation of the representative speech act, directive speech act, expressive speech act, commissive speech act, and declarative speech act. Then, concluded that directive speech act plays a major form of this research’s finding and discussion and representative speech act as the second form whose type is commonly used in the sticker as promotional media.

Illocutionary Speech Acts in Sawér Poetry of the Sundanese Ethnic Traditional Marriage Ceremony

The lyrics contained in every nyawér ceremony certainly have meaning and a message. This research aims to determine the type of speech of each stanza of poetry and to understand the meaning contained inward. This research adopts descriptive qualitative methods with a cultural approach. The research data were taken from a Sundanese sawér poetry by Mr. Tahyan from Ciamis consisting of 9 stanzas. Each stanza, consisting of several lines of poetry, was analyzed using Searle's speech act theory to determine the type of speech and pragmatic manifestations. The cultural approach was used to strengthen the analysis. This was because the speech in the sawér poetry of the wedding ceremony is very closely related to the culture of a region, in this case, the Sundanese ethnic group. The results of the research show that the types of speech in Sundanese sawér poetry consist of 2 directive illocutionary speech acts meaning requests and hopes; 3 directive illocutionary acts meaning prohibitions and warnings; 2 directive illocutionary commands and suggestions; 1 assertive illocutionary meaning statement, and 1 assertive illocutionary act that means hopeful. The meaning contained in the sawér poetry is advice for the newlyweds to enter married life through religious norms and social norms so that they can live it well and achieve happiness.

Machine Translation Shifts on The Meaning Equivalence of Culture Sentence and Illocutionary Speech Acts: Back-Translation

Machine Translation Shifts on The Meaning Equivalence of Culture Sentence and Illocutionary Speech Acts: Back-Translation

Presuposisi Faktif dalam Tindak Tutur Ilokusi Membual di Desa Karang Jati, Kecamatan Pandaan, Kabupaten Pasuruan

Presuppositions are one of the topics of pragmatic semantics. This presupposition is the speaker's assumption of the speaker. This presupposition is present in every speech act and is often encountered. As in the illocutionary speech act of boasting (TTIM), people usually use TTIM to brag about themselves and to exalt themselves. There are several types of assumptions or presuppositions, one of which is factive presupposition. This presupposition exists every time a speaker performs the illocutionary speech act of boasting. This factive presupposition is always present in everyday activities. The theory used is the presupposition type theory from Yule (2006). Meanwhile, for speech act theory, Ibrahim (1993) is used. Based on this research, a total of 6 types of factive presuppositions were found in the illocutionary speech act of boasting in Karang Jati Village, Pandaan District, Pasuruan Regency by dividing the types of factive presuppositions based on general illocutionary speech acts based on their purpose which was divided into 6 types. The types of general illocutionary speech acts based on their purpose are crossed with 3 types of miter speech responses.

The Illocutionary Speech Acts of Women's Underwear Sellers while Live at the Tiktok Shop

The Illocutionary Speech Acts of Women's Underwear Sellers while Live at the Tiktok Shop

The Illocutionary Speech Acts of the Statistics for Language Research Course on Learning Management System

The Illocutionary Speech Acts of the Statistics for Language Research Course on Learning Management System

Implications of Illocutionary Speech Acts Study in Language Learning for Foreigners

This study aims to explore the types and functions of speech acts in BIPA (Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers) teaching materials which can have implications for language learning for foreign speakers. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The source of this research data is dialogue in Practical BIPA teaching materials by the Ministry of Education and Culture.Data collection techniques using document techniques. Data analysis techniques in this study used the Spradley model analysis techniques, through 4 stages, namely, domain analysis, taxonomy, componential, and cultural theme analysis. The findings in this study indicate that there are 5 types of illocutionary speech acts, namely assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. These findings can have implications for language learning for foreign speakers, especially BIPA learning. Understanding illocutionary speech acts can help foreign speakers to develop communicative abilities of foreign speakers. Insight into knowledge of illocutionary speech acts can help foreign speakers understand cultural norms related to the use of the target language. Speech act studies can also improve the ability to understand and use language in appropriate social contexts. Insight into illocutionary speech acts also helps foreign speakers to be more careful of errors or misunderstandings in communication. Can be used as material for foreign speakers in negotiating, convincing, and influencing others when communicating.

Illocutionary Speech Acts in President Jokowi’s Instagram Account: A Multimodal Pragmatic Study

As the country’s leader, President Jokowi’s Instagram account functions as a medium of communication with the Indonesian people, so its substance contains educational values, including his speech acts. This research describes the form and strategy of illocutionary speech acts in posts on President Jokowi’s Instagram account. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method, and the approach was multimodal pragmatics. Research data includes President Jokowi’s uploads on his Instagram account. The sampling technique uses a purposive sampling method in the form of uploads to President Jokowi’s Instagram account from January to February 2023. The data collection technique involves document analysis and interviews with language experts. Data validation tests were carried out by triangulating theory and methods. The data analysis technique uses flow analysis or typology. The research results show that (1) illocutionary speech acts on President Jokowi’s Instagram account include four forms directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. The dominant form is directive speech acts; (2) the speech act strategies used in President Jokowi’s Instagram account include direct and indirect speech act strategies.

Illocutionary Speech Acts used by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. during the 2022 and 2023 State of the Nation Address

Illocutionary Speech Acts used by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. during the 2022 and 2023 State of the Nation Address

Illocutionary Speech Acts on Balinese Hospitality Advertising Discourse in Russian: A Pragmatic Study

This study aims to determine the types of speech acts, speech forms, and implicatures used by advertisers in promoting hotels as places to stay for tourists while on holiday in Bali. Advertising discourse as much as 50 data were analyzed using speech act theory. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with a pragmatic approach. The results of this study indicate that discourse on Bali hospitality advertisements on the internet consists of 27 assertive, 20 commissive, and 3 directive speech acts. As for the form of speech, most of the discourse on hotel advertisements is indirect speech acts. This is because in the existing hospitality advertising discourse there are still many utterances stated implicitly. The conventional and unconventional implicatures from this hotel advertisement are information, suggestions, invitations, and offers. By knowing this, advertisers can optimize their advertising speech acts to make it more informative, persuasive and commercial.

An Analysis Of Teacher Illocutionary Speech Acts In Teaching English At SMA 8 Pangkep

The purpose of this study is to identify the kinds of illocutionary utterances the teacher employs during instruction. This study's design is a qualitative one that use the descriptive approach. The dialogues that the teacher conducted while teaching and learning were the source of the research data. The research instrument was observation and recording, following which the researcher did a transcription and the researcher himself collected, processed and presented the data acquired in this study. The results demonstrate that the teacher engages in four different sorts of illocutionary acts: directive, representational, expressive, and commissive. The teacher employs 68 instances of this illocutionary behavior type. Directive was employed 32 times (47.05%), representational 16 times (23.52%), expressive 13 times (19.11), and commissive 3 times (4.41%) out of the 68 utterances. During the teaching and learning process, teachers often carry out directives. Because the use of directives in the teaching and learning process can be used to manage and control student behavior and activities. By using questioning, the teacher encourages more active participation from the class.

Illocutionary Speech Acts of Verbal Bullying in Dahl’s the Big Friendly Giant and Its Impacts on Self-Esteem of the Main Characters

The thesis aims to describe illocutionary speech acts of verbal bullying from a children’s literature entitled the Big Friendly Giant written by Roald Dahl. The research was designed as a qualitative study and applied content analysis. The used instruments were the tables contained illocutionary speech acts indicating verbal bullying and self-esteem. The data formed in the narrative quotations, which those were analyzed with applying Searle’s illocutionary speech acts. Verbal bullying were classified into six types, such as insulting, reviling, calling by bad name, public shaming, spreading gossip, and accusing. Furthermore, the data were connected with the issue of self-esteem having five senses proposed by Reasoners, such as sense of security, identity, belonging, purpose, and competence. The results indicated that two main figures experienced four of six verbal bullying types, such as insulting consisting of 19 utterances, or 73% of whole data, 1 datum of reviling (5.3%), 5 data of calling by bad names (19%), and 1 of accusing (5.3%). Meanwhile, the data of self-esteem informed 1 utterance of sense of identity (7%), belonging (2 utterances or 15%), purpose (5 utterances, 36%), and competence (6 utterances or 43%). In conclusion, the Big Friendly Giant can be recommended as English subject material because of providing a unique illustration for school students in dealing with verbal bullying which motivates them to erecttheir better future. 
 KeyWords: Illocutionary Speech Acts, Self-Esteem, the Big Friendly Giant, Verbal Bullying.

Speech Acts Revisited: Examining Illocutionary Speech Acts in Speeches of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Pragmatics is an interdisciplinary subfield of applied linguistics that investigates the meaning in context. One of its research areas, speech acts, provides important implications on how the meaning behind the utterances is perceived and what effect it may have on the hearer. Theories and classifications proposed by Austin (1962) and Searle (1979) are particularly useful in understanding the hidden meaning and its effect on the audience. Political discourse is directly connected with speech acts and there is a body of research that focuses on the classification of illocutionary acts embedded within speeches of politicians. In this regard, the present research aimed to analyze illocutionary speech acts of two speeches of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk;speech at the 10th anniversary of Turkish Republic and Address to Turkish Youth which was a part of his great speech that he delivered to deputies and representatives of the Republican Party on 15th-20th October 1927 by employing qualitative content analysis on English translations of the speeches. Subsequent to meticulous analysis, the present qualitative study concluded that Ataturk used more speech acts in his speech at the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Republic than his Address to Turkish Youth. Speech acts in his speech at the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Republic primarily featured expressive, representative, commissive and directive speech acts while his Address to Turkish Youth featured representative and commissive, directive, expressive speech acts, respectively.In total, the most used speech acts were representatives, followed by expressives, commissives and directives. No declaration speech act was observed in either speech.

Tindak Tutur Pelaku Pencemaran Nama Baik Luhut Binsar Panjaitan Oleh Haris Azhar Dan Fatia Maulidiyanti Dalam Konten Sosial Media Youtube ‘Ada Lord Luhut Dibalik Relasi Ekonomi-Ops Militer Intan Jaya’

This research aims to analyze the speech acts of defamation perpetrators on YouTube social media carried out by Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti towards Luhut Binsar Panjaitan. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative to see how the language used by speakers in YouTube social media content entitled 'There is Lord Luhut behind the Intan Jaya Military Economic-OPS Relations' in pragmatic studies. Data collection was carried out using the note-taking method and then classifying the types of speech acts produced. The results of the research showed that there were 10 data which included 1 declarative illocutionary speech act, 5 representative illocutionary speech acts, 2 locutionary speech acts, and 2 expressive illocutionary speech acts.

Pragmatic Study of Illocutionary Speech Acts in the Short Story Shoriul Hasad by Taha Husein

As social creatures, humans cannot be separated from speaking activities. In speaking activities, the speech that occurs between the speaker and the interlocutor is not just about saying something, but is also used to carry out an action. Illocutionary speech acts not only occur in everyday communication, but in short story literary works which are depictions of life, there are also illocutionary speech acts in speech between characters. Illocutionary speech acts play a very important role in conveying the message in the short story to the readers. The author chose the short story Shoriul Hasad by Taha Husein as the research object because the author was interested in how illocutionary speech acts were in the speech spoken by the characters in the short story. The method used in this research is a descriptive analysis method, namely describing the found facts in the form of analysis. This research is included in library research where all data sources are written and obtained through various literature sources related to the research. Based on the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that in the short story Shoriul Hasad by Taha Husein, 14 sentences were found which are illocutionary speech acts in the form of representative, directive, expressive and commissive. Illocutionary speech acts in representative form consist of 2 sentences which are utterances to tell something. Illocutionary speech acts in the form of directives consist of 6 sentences consisting of 1 prohibiting utterance, 3 requesting utterances, 1 commanding utterance, 1 advising utterance. Illocutionary speech acts in expressive form consist of 5 sentences consisting of 2 utterances showing liking and 3 utterances showing dislike. The commissive illocutionary speech act consists of 1 sentence which is 1 threat utterance.

Expressive Illocutionary Speech Acts Used in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story Series

This research discusses expressive speech acts identified in the Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story series. The objective of this research are to find out the types of expressive speech acts and the most dominant types of expressive speech acts used in the Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story series. The method used in this research was descriptive-qualitative. This research used theory from Searle and Vanderken (1985) to analyze the data. The data in this study were obtained from the utterances used by the character in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. The results of this research showed that there are 109 data points found, namely 12 data of apology, 14 data of thanks, three data of condole, two data of condolences, 10 data of complaint, 12 data of lament, 15 data of protest, five data of deplore, six data of boast, 13 data of compliment, six data of praise, and 11 data of welcome (greet). With these data, the expressive speech act of protest is the most types of expressive speech act used in the Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story series.

Illocutionary Speech Acts of Assertive, Directive, Expressive, Commissive, and Declarative in the Tweets of Jibran Kholil Jibran Account

This study aimed to describe the form of assertive, directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative illocutionary speech acts analysed based on the data collected. The method used was descriptive qualitative research. The data used were Arabic tweets contained in the twitter account @gbranit جبران خليل جبـران which totalled 30 tweets. Data collection used listening, note-taking, and documentation. The listening and note-taking techniques were carried out by collecting twitter tweets and selecting them for analysis. The analysis technique used Miles and Huberman’s interactive model comprising data collection, data reduction, data exposition, and conclusion drawing. This study revealed 30 data classified into 5 forms of illocutionary speech acts, namely 3 assertive speech acts, 6 directive speech acts, 13 expressive speech acts, 5 commissive speech acts, and 3 declarative speech acts. From all types of illocutionary speech acts, expressive speech acts were mostly used by speakers.

Analisis Tindak Tutur Ilokusi Percakapan pada Podcast Azizah Hanum dengan Tamu Undangan Maudy Ayunda: Kita Beragam, Kita Cantik

One of the phenomena contained in pragmatics which discusses the use of language in everyday, people's lives is illocutionarys peechacts. Illocutionary speech acts are known as The Act Of Doing Something or speech acts that are conveyed withth intention of an action. The purpose of this research is to find out the form and purpose of the speech acts contained in Azizah Hanum and Maudy Ayunda's podcast which discusses: kita beragam, kita cantik. This research will also later show which forms of speech mostly appear in the podcast. For the research method using a qualitative descriptive method that is describing the forms of speech found. The data collection technique was carried out by observing and noting techniques. Based onthe data analysis, four forms of speech were found with 26 data, namely assertive (12), directive (3), expressive (10), and commissive (1).

Art of Influence: Analyzing Xi Jinping's Illocutionary Speech Acts at Bo’ao Asia Forum 2022

This research investigates the illocutionary speech acts utilized by Xi Jinping in his keynote speech at the Bo’ao Asia Forum 2022. The study aims to categorize and analyze the specific types of illocutionary speech acts used by Xi Jinping in his address titled "The World in COVID-19 & Beyond: Working Together for Global Development and Shared Future." Employing a qualitative-descriptive research methodology, the study focuses on the role of language in speech acts as a means to convey the intended message to the audience. The analysis identifies four distinct types of illocutionary speech acts in Xi Jinping's speech: assertive acts (showing, stating, reporting), directive acts (advising, inviting, instructing), commissioner acts (proposing, promising), and expressive acts (greeting, welcoming, complaining, thanking). By exploring these illocutionary speech acts, the research sheds light on Xi Jinping's effective communication strategies and his ability to engage and influence the audience during the Bo’ao Asia Forum 2022. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the persuasive power of language in high-profile speeches and the art of effective public speaking.Key Words: Speech, Illocutionary Speech Act, Xi Jinping, Bo’ao Asia Forum.

Illocutionary Speech Acts in Oprah Winfrey’s Motivational Speech: A Pragmatic Study

<p><em>Pragmatic studies have been widely conducted, but speech acts on motivational speeches were rarely investigated. Moreover, functions of illocutionary speech acts are received very limited scholarly attention. These gaps have been encouraging the researchers to conduct the present to analyze speech acts contained in Oprah Winfrey’s motivational speeches with two purposes. First, it is to identify the forms of illocutionary speech acts in Oprah's motivational speech. Second, it also determines the function of illocutionary speech acts in Oprah's motivational speech. It employed a qualitative and quantitative method for the analysis. Then, in collecting data, it used note-taking as an instrument. In this regard, we watched and listened to five motivational videos of Oprah Winfrey’s speeches four times, and then took notes of any utterances containing forms and functions of illocutionary speech acts. Then, for analyzing data, we classified the forms of speech acts using a theory from Searle (1969) and functions of speech acts employing an analytical framework from Leech (1993). The results show various forms and functions in delivering a motivational speech. However, most speech acts in the videos tend to be assertive rather than the others, and concerning functions, they tend to be collaborative. The reason behind these dominances is discussed in this paper.</em></p>