ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN GREENFIELD’S LET’S BE COPS: TYPES, FORCES AND FUNCTIONS

Widyawati, Siska (2018) ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN GREENFIELD’S LET’S BE COPS: TYPES, FORCES AND FUNCTIONS. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This pragmatic study investigates the use of illocutionary act in Let’s Be Cops. This research aims to identify the types of illocutionary acts so as to reveal their forces and to describe the directness and indirectness of illocutionary acts. The principles of pragmatic analysis, particularly those of illocutionary acts, serve the theoretical foundation of the research. Qualitative method was employed to scrutinize the data, which were taken from the main characters’s utterances of Let’s Be Cops. The data were in the form of words, phrases, and sentences. After being collected, the data were analyzed based on Searle’s (1969) and Yule’s (1996) theories of illocutionary acts and Holmes’s (1992) theory of context. To achieve trustworthiness, the researcher involved peer review triangulation. The results of this research are as follows. Firstly, the types of illocutionary act identified from Let’s Be Cops are representative, directive, commissive, and expressive. Declaration is not found in the data since there is no certain felicity condition for the main characters to perform the act. The data reveals that there are forces that emerge from each type. Forces emerging from representative are asserting, stating, informing, and clarifying. Forces of directive are commanding, warning, and inviting. Forces of commissive are promising, refusing, and threatening. Forces of expressive are greeting, thanking, and apologizing. Regarding the second objective, it can be inferred that direct acts convey a literal meaning and is articulated through various types, i.e., representative, directive, commissive, and expressive. Meanwhile, indirect acts convey an implied meaning and is expressed through representative and directive. Finally, illocutionary act shows what speakers are doing with their locutions. The types and the ways of expressing illocutionary acts are important to deliver speakers’ intention and to help the listeners recognise the specific function of speakers’ utterance.

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	illocutionary act, types, forces, functions, Greenfield’s Let’s Be Cops
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions:	Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited:	09 May 2018 02:44
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2019 16:24
URI:	http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/56879

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