NALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS USED IN JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW

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