NALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS USED IN JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW

Puspitasari, Arini and Novita, Eka and Sofyan, Dedi (2024) NALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS USED IN JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

An effective communication is characterized with the same interpretation between the speaker and the hearer about an utterance. In order to achieve the same interpretation, an understanding of speech acts is required. This study examined illocutionary speech acts in spoken discourse, Jennifer Hudson Show. The purpose of this research were to find out the kinds of illocutionary acts and to find out the pattern of speech acts in Jennifer Hudson Show. A descriptive qualitative research method was adopted as the design in this research. Corpus linguistic approach was used to collect data. Data in this research were transcripts of four episodes of the Jennifer Hudson Show. The data were categorized using the Speech Act Theory of Searle (1979). The first finding showed that there were four kinds of illocutionary acts in Jennifer Hudson Show, which were assertive, directive, commissive, and expressive. The most frequent illocutionary act was directive. Otherwise, commissive was the least frequent kind of illocutionary act. Meanwhile, the illocutionary act of declaration was not found in this talk show. The second finding showed that there was a sequence pattern in the Jennifer Hudson Show. This sequence pattern shows that there is a tendency that the talk shows in the first segment begin with expressive – assertive – expressive. The pattern can be a possible model or guideline to start the talk shows. Keywords: discourse analysis, illocutionary, pragmatics, speech acts, talk show

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