do something. In utterance, speaker performs an illocutionary act in using a particular locution to refer. Such utterance has illocutionary act force of a
statement, a confirming, a denial, a prediction, a promise, a request, etc. 3. Perlocutionary act.
Perlocutionary act is an act that is uttered to affect the listener. An utterance that is uttered by someone often has effect to the listener. Which can be
expected or unexpected affect that created by the speaker. So, in other word, a perlocution is listener behavioral response to the meaning of the utterance,
not necessarily physical or verbal response, perhaps merely a mental or emotional response.
There is an example of speech acts. A child refuse to lie down and go to sleep, then his mother says, “I’ll turn your light off”. The locutionary act is utterance
of this sentence “I’ll turn your light off”. However, the mother may be intending that the utterance to be interpreted as a threat. The threat here is the illocutionary acts. It
means that child does not sleep, his mother will turn off the light. As consequence behavior of that child, he must be frightened into silence and sleep is Perlocutionary
act.
2.3 Understanding of Illocutionary Act
2.3.1 The Defenition of Illocutionary act This research emphasizes on one of the speech acts, the illocutionary acts.
According to Austin in Carrol 1999:140, the illocutionary acts is “the action that is performed by saying the sentence”. However, this research only use the theory of
illocutionary act from Searle because the fact that this person has been successful in developing this theory, which is originally from Austin. According to
Hallion2001:13, to give a better understanding about illocutionary acts, Searle contrast it with Perlocutionary acts. In this explanation, an illocutionary acts “ a
linguistics acts performed in uttering certain words in a given context” while a Perlocutionary acts is” a non-linguistics act performed as a consequence of
performing the locution and illocutionary acts”. For example, the utterance “Good Morning” is the illocutionary acts of greeting, this illocutionary acts effects on the
listener’s perception to bring a Perlocutionary acts replying “Good Morning”. In this research, the researcher use illocutionary acts further development.
Illocutionary acts have three important characteristics
Akmajian 1980, in Wahyuni, 2005:18
, they are : 1. Illocutionary acts can often be successfully performed simply by uttering the
right explicit performative sentence with the right intention and believe and under right circumstances.
2. Illocutionary acts are the central to linguistic communication. Our normal conversations are composed in large part of statements, requesting, ordering,
greeting and so forth. The performed acts aregoverned by rules. When one does perform perlocutionary acts of persuading, one does so by performing
illocutionary act of stating or informing. 3. The most important characteristic possessed by illocutionary acts used to
communicative have the feature that one performs them successfully simply by getting one’s illocutionary intention recognized.
2.3.2 Ways of Performing Illocutionary Act
