Analysis of the Function of Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Speech Acts in the Novel Ingkar by Boy Candra

Abstract

Speech acts are speech events where humans communicate with each other using language to achieve goals between the speaker and the speech partner. The result of a speech act is the goal of the meaning to be conveyed. We often encounter speech acts in literary works such as novels. The novel that will be analyzed in this research is the novel Denial by Boy Candra. The aim of this research is to describe the forms of locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts contained in the novel ingkar by Boy Candra and to describe the function of speech acts contained in the novel ingkar by Boy Candra. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data in this research are fragments of the manuscript in the novel. Meanwhile, the data source for this research is speech acts in the manuscript of the novel ingkar by Boy Candra. The data analysis technique in this research is using the agih method or BUL technique (Divide Direct Elements). The results of this research are the function of locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts in the novel ingkar by Boy Candra. . The functions of speech acts found in this research are (1) the function of assertive speech acts (2) the function of directive speech acts (3) the function of commissive speech acts, (4) the function of expressive speech acts.