Illocutionary acts "In the telltale nations" - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

Communication between people may not often run smoothly as expected.
It happens because the hearer does not know exactly what the speaker means. The
research is interested in analyzing speech acts, which takes an important rule in
communication, especially in illocutionary acts. For the data, the writer chooses
legal English TV Series ?The Telltale Nations ? season seven episode six.
Because there are many illocutionary acts that can be found in conversations
between the participants in the courtroom. The scope of her study is pragmatics
and she uses Searle (1969) is theory. The writer also uses World Wide Web to
search the transcript for the data. For collecting the data, the writer transcribed the
film and to classify the utterances she used types of illocutionary acts like in the
theory. In addition, to analyze the data the writer identified several different
courtroom scenes. After that she analyzed the utterances based on the context, and
illocutionary acts such as representatives, directives, commissives, expressives
and declaratives types are found in every scene. As a conclusion, the writer
concludes that the language used in the courtroom which may contain stating
utterance is the dominant type because a defendant in the legal court must make a
good argument for supporting his or her claim of not being guilty and, try to avoid
accusation by rejecting it of being guilty by making alibi.

Subject
1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE-DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE-SPOKEN ENGLISH
3. SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011268/ING/2004; Triana Susanti (114980142)
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