Illocutionary act is the speaker intention regarding what act they expect to perform by making their utterance. When the speaker utters something in an appropriate context and certain intention it always content one or more illocutionary acts. When we produce some utterances, we do not just produce the form, but we also have an intention in our mind in saying our utterance. This research aims t…
Speech act is one of discussion in pragmatics that discusses the relationship between utterance and action. Speech act is divided into three; locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. The illocutionary act became the subject of this research considered the importance of this between two other speech acts, especially as a student majoring in language. Joker chosen as the object …
This research was conducted in order to explore types of illocutionary act based on theory proposed by Searle and function of illocutionary act based on theory proposed by Leech. This study is a descriptive qualitative. The object of this study is speech from President Donald Trump's speech about Iran. There are several steps to analyze the data. First, the researcher observed the d…
The language used in advertisement is simple, purposeful, and rich language style that influence the reader. Advertisements consist of three components, such as: text, image, and organization. The purpose of the advertisement is to persuade someone in order to follow the message delivered by the advertisement. Although the language is simple, but it has great meaning which is understood by the …