An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts of Ali and Amirah Characters in She Wore Red Trainers Novel

Mu'awanah, Siti Risalatul (2023) An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts of Ali and Amirah Characters in She Wore Red Trainers Novel. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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MU’AWANAH, SITI RISALATUL. 2023. An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts of Ali and Amirah Characters in “She Wore Red Trainers” Novel. Thesis, English Language Teaching Department, Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty, State Islamic Institute of Ponorogo. Advisor, Wiwin Widyawati, M. Hum.
Keywords: Speech Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Directive, Expressive

Directive and expressive acts are used in everyday communication, with no exception in the learning and teaching process. The illocutionary point of directives is an attempt utterance by the speaker to get the listener to do something. The direction of fit is world to words and the sincerity condition is want. The illocutionary point of expressive is to express the psychological state specified in the sincerity condition about a state of affairs specified in the propositional contents. In expressive, there is no direction of fit. Both directive and expressive acts are essential because they make communicating clear and are frequently used to communicate.

The aims of this research are 1) to find out the types of directive acts conveyed by the main characters in She Wore Red Trainers novel. 2) to find out the types of expressive acts conveyed by the main characters in She Wore Red Trainers novel

The researcher used library research as a research design and descriptive qualitative research for the research approach. This research data were utterances produced by the main characters in She Wore Red Trainers novel. The source data in this research used script of She Wore Red Trainers novel and various resources such e-books and any other journals related to the topic being studied. The researcher used documentary technique to do this research. This research use a systematic and description of phenomena based on the theoretical framework which lead the researcher to present the data collection and data analysis in such detailed explanation. Thus, this research was done by applying library approach along with descriptive qualitative as the research design. During the process of data collection, the data were collected through documentation and in this research the researcher played a role as a single data collector. The researcher used the theory of speech acts proposed by Searle especially on the description of directive and expressive speech acts.

According to the data analysis of this research, The result of this research showed that there are five directive act with total number of 129 utterances consist of 7 by requesting, 38 by commanding, 74 by asking, 6 by forbidding, and 2 by suggesting. Asking is the most dominant type of directive act used by the main characters in She Wore Red Trainers novel. There are three expressive act in this study with the total number 13 utterances consist of 6 by apologizing, 3 by thanking, 4 by greeting. Apologizing is the most dominant types of expressive act used by the main characters in She Wore Red Trainers novel.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: Wiwin Widyawati
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2023 06:26
Last Modified: 21 Jun 2023 06:26
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/24995

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