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convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something. When the participant of conservation understands the
illocutionary acts of the utterance, he may meet the expectation. In indirect speech acts, it is important for speakers to be knowledgeableon
mutually shared background information.
1.6 Research Method
The present writer uses the analytic descriptive method in this report. According to Whitney 1960, “Analytic descriptive method is fact-finding with
the proper interpretation. In that method, the present writer could compare the data and the case. Determining and analyzing are also used in this method”. The
data taken from the book entitled ‘daily activity’.
1.7 Place and Time
This job training was held in BalaiBahasaProvinsiJawa Barat. It is located on Jl. Sumbawa No. 11, Bandung, West Java. The writer’s responsibility is to
make a book in English about a daily conversation and it was started from 09.00 until 15.00 for two months 15
th
July until 16
th
September 2013.
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CHAPTER II BALAI BAHASA OF WEST JAVA PROVINCE
2.1 BalaiBahasaof West Java Province
BalaiBahasaof West Java Province is located at Jl. Sumbawa No. 11 , Bandung. It is a government institution which carries out the research, and
development of language and literature.
2.2 Job Position in BalaiBahasaof West Java Province
In BalaiBahasa, the present writer acted as an author for two months, and was assigned to make a book about daily activity; that book will be printed.
Therefore, for two months, the present writer managed to make the book entitled “DailyConversation” as the project of the job training.
2.3 Responsibility
During the job training in BalaiBahasaof West Java Province,the present writer has responsibility to make a children book on daily conversation. After two
months working in BalaiBahasa, the book had successfully printed.
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CHAPTER III THE USAGE OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS
IN A BOOK ENTITLED “DAILY CONVERSATION”
3.1 The Analysis of Indirect Speech Acts
Searle1969:42 mentions that:
“One difference is that the sounds or marks one makes in the
performance of
an illocutionary
act are
characteristically said to have meaning, and a second related difference is that one is characteristically said to
mean something by the utterance of those sounds or marks”
The action is performed to convey a certain intention. In speech acts, the intention may be defined as illocutionary.
For illustrating the illocutionary and indirect speech-acts ideas, the data presented from the book, “Daily Conversation”, cover the phenomenon and the
requirements. From the detailed analysis, it is noted that the speaker wantsto deal the conversationmore polite by conveying the meaning indirectly.. Unfortunately,
the idea of politeness is not the only reason why people performed their ideas through indirect speech acts. The two data presented may cover the alternative
idea of indirect speech acts.
