Perlocutionary Speech Acts in Seringai Album Song Lyrics and Their Relevance to Critical Character Education

Abstract

This study aims to (1) identify the forms of perlocutionary speech acts in the song lyrics of the Seringai band, (2) identify the purpose of the perlocutionary speech acts in the song lyrics of the Seringai band, and (3) Identifying the relevance of the perlocutionary speech acts in the song lyrics of the Seringai band to critical character education. The data in this study were collected using a note-taking technique. Data in the form of writing or text can be seen on the internet. To analyze the data in this study using the equivalent method with a pragmatic approach and descriptive method. The results of this study indicate that there are (a) forms of perlocutionary speech acts in the song lyrics of the Seringai album, (b) the purpose of the perlocutionary speech act in the song lyrics of the Seringai album, and (c) the relevance of the perlocutionary speech act in the song lyrics of the Seringai album towards critical character education which results in 30 types of example sentences that can be categorized as perlocutionary speech acts: 8 angry or upset with persons and circumstances; 6 informing about social conditions, 4 advising everyone and irresponsible persons, 4 insinuating irresponsible persons, 3 complaining because the situation is deteriorating, 2 ordering to fight, 2 praising someone, and 1 calling for individual freedom . Song lyrics from the album Seringai have relevance to the value of critical characters.