Problems of The Study

1.3 Objectives of The Study

1. To identify the types of commissive and expressive illocutionary acts used in The Cottage. 2. To analyze the intended meanings of each type of commissive and expressive illocutionary acts used in the novel The Cottage, and investigate how the context of situation support the meaning of each illocutionary acts.

1.4. Scope of Discussion

This research focused on the identification of the types and intended meanings of commissive and expressive illocutionary acts which are found in the novel The Cottage. Besides, the analysis of how the context of situation in the study was also going to be explained further in relation on how it supports the intended meaning conveyed within the illocutionary acts. 1.5 Research Methods 1.5.1 Data Source The data as taken from The Cottage by Danielle Steel published in 2002. The story is about Cooper Winslow, a star of the silver screen for decades, who is in for a major surprise. He is broken. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time. His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy OConnor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Marks wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness.But everything changes when Marks teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop. The dialogues in the novel were the population of the data and taken as the sample were the conversations which presented illocutionary acts. The illocutionary acts then analyzed to find out the types, the context of situation involved in, and the intended meaning. The novel was chosen because it contains many utterances indicating those 5 types of illocutionary acts performed in its dialogues. The dialogues were the population and the sample was taken by scanning those utterances that could be classified as illocutionary acts.

1.5.2 Method and Technique of Collecting Data

Documentation method was used in this study in regards to the data form. The data was taken from documents. Furthermore, there where no respondent or informant involved in this research since the data was taken from the novel. The techniques that used in this study is note taking technique as describe below : 1. Reading all chapter of the novel thoroughly in order to find utterances that represent commissive and expressive illocutionary acts. 2. Later, after reading the novel and had enough samples of commissive and expressive illocutionary acts within it based on Searle’s theory, the next was