English Language and Literature
Vol 7, No 1 (2018)

Illocutionary Acts Found in Novel the Never Girls: Before the Bell by Kiki Thorpe

Dolla Vania Petriandy (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Leni Marlina (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Feb 2018

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze types of illocutionary act found in novel The Never Girls Bell: Before the Bell by Kiki Thorpe. This research used the descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research is the utterances of novel The Never Girls Bell: Before the Bell by Kiki Thorpe published in 2016. The data is taken from chapter one, page one until seven. This data would be analyzed based on Searleā€™s theory about classifications of illocutionary act. There are some types of illocutionary act in this paper; they are representative (informing, asserting, predicting, reporting); directive (asking, requesting, stating), commisive (promising); expressive (liking, complimenting), and declarative. The finding of the data has shown that in novel the highest is representative 28 data or about 50% and the highest representative type is informing. And the second is directive 21 data or about 37, 5% and the highest directive is asking. From the result of the study that the dominant type of illocutionary act is representative and the dominant sub-type of representative is informing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ell

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: E- JOURNAL English Language and Literature Study Program of FBS UNP. Volume 1, Number 1, September 2012, ISSN 2302-3546. English Language and Literature Study Program journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). It consits of scientific ...