International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
Vol 3, No 1 (2022): The Contribution of Literature and Applied Linguistics in English Learning

Analysis of Illocutionary Acts And Perlocutionary Acts In The Freedom Writers By Richards Largavenese

Saeful Anwar (IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Dec 2022

Abstract

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that examines meaning in an externally meaningful way. A speech act is an utterance made by the following speakers’ notices, orders or regrets, congratulations, and words that always involve action or intent. This research is qualitative that identified the types of illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts from The Freedom Writers. The data was then analyzed and categorized based on speech acts classification. The objective of this research is to know the type of Illocutionary act and Perlocutionary Act found in The Freedom Writers by Richards Lagravenese. The research findings of this study are; First, the writer found 139 kinds of illocutionary acts in The Freedom Writers, and out of them, there are 47 types of representative consists of stating, informing, suggesting, complaining, and claiming; 39 types of directive consists of ordering, commanding and requesting; 21 types of expressive consists of thanking, congratulating, blaming and praising; 19 types of commissive consists of promising and offering; and 13 types of declarative only consists of naming. Second, there are only 55 data on perlocutionary acts found in The Freedom Writers by Richards Lagravenese.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJELAL

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ijelal is a scientific journal which focuses on the area and topic of english language education both learning and teaching, english linguistics and literature and applied linguistics, including methodology of english teaching for non native speakers, teaching english as foreign language, teaching ...