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Table 3.2. Through percentage form, the table was to show what the most employed speech act category in TYS column. Therefore, the research problems could be
answered. Table 3.2 The percentage of speech act categories in Text Your Say column
No. The Category
percentage 1.
Assertive 2.
Directive 3.
Commissive 4.
Expressive 5.
Declarative
Next, the researcher used expert validation to make sure the analysis was valid. The researcher also chose an International Relation undergraduate student
who specialized in speech acts and understood the social, politic, and economic issues. The intention was to verify whether the analysis was according to the theory
or not. In the last, the researcher summarized and concluded the data. It was to answer and cover the two research problems.
E. Research Procedure
There were four stages of research procedure in this study. Those were selecting the data, analyzing the data, discussing the findings, and presenting the
findings. Every process had its own result from the beginning until the end of the research. The researcher explained the procedure from gathering the data until
25 presenting the findings. As the result, the two research problems were answered.
Here, the researcher provides the scheme of the research procedure. Process
Result
Figure 3.1 Research Procedure
Selecting the data
Analyzing the data
Discussing the findings
Presenting the findings
The transcript of TYS column
The classification of speech act categories
The report amd discussion
Conclusion PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents research results and discussion to answer two research questions about speech act categories of TYS column in the Jakarta Post of
September 2015 issues. The two research questions are 1 which speech act categories are employed in the TYS column of the Jakarta Post of September 2015
issues and 2 which speech act categories are most frequently employed or characterize the TYS column in the Jakarta Post of September 2015 issues.
A. Speech Acts Categories in TYS column
The researcher provides the texts from TYS column in order to analyze the speech act categories related to the study. From 16 themes that are provided by the
Jakarta Post staffs, there are 114 texts from the readers. The opinions in the column present
the readers’ speech act categories. Based on the Searle’s theory, speech act categories are assertive, commisive, directive, expressive, and declarative which
have been explained in the chapter II. From the analysis, the researcher found out four of five speech act categories: assertive, commissive, directive, and expressive.
The researcher did not find out declarative category of speech acts.
1. Assertive Category
According to Searle 1976 assertive category is a speech act that commits the speaker to the truth of a proposition
. The researcher found out the readers’ texts in the TYS column which show assertive category. There were 98 assertive
