Review of Literatures REVIEW OF LITERATURES, CONCEPT AND THEORETICAL
A similar undergraduate thesis which takes speech act as the topic discussion is “The Analysis of Directive Illocutionary Act in the Radiotelephony of
Air Traffic Service Control” done by Trisnaputri 2004. This paper focused on the directive illocutionary act in the conversation that happened in the
radiotelephony of air traffic control at Ngurah Rai airport. The strength of this study is this study gives readers new information about radiotelephony and the
function of each utterance as commonly used and it is explained in detail. However, there is also the weakness of this study, the analysis in Trisnapu
tri’s work is very complicated because there are many technical terms used in her
study. It is hard to understand because not all the readers understand terms used in Radiotelephony air traffic. The similarities and the differences of Trisnaputri work
to this study is almost the same like the previous undergraduate thesis reviewed. Tris
naputri’s undergraduate thesis above is relevant to this study’s topic which takes speech acts as the topic. But, there is a slight difference because the study
reviewed above discussed specifically about directive illocutionary acts while this study concerns with five basic kinds of speech acts proposed by Searle 1969
Another relevant undergraduate thesis to review comes from Sapitri in 2004 “The Directive Act in the Novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Sapitri’s
study gives some contributions to this study, mainly in the area of theory used to analyze the data and Sapitri’s study gives a good example of elaborating theory
used in analyzing data. In her paper, Saputri describes the meaning or the utterance using the affective meaning by Leech. The study reviewed is relevant to
this study which takes speech acts as the topic of discussion. The difference of
Sapitri’s study to this study is her study only concerns about one type of illocutionary act that is directives illocutionary act while this study focuses on all
types of illocutionary act, in addition to the object used in the study. Sapitri uses novel as her object, while in this study uses movie as the object to find out the
illocutionary acts. The strength of this study is that Sapitri explains the context of situation clearly in her work to make readers more easily understand what speech
act is. The next undergraduate thesis under review is from Purwaningsih 2006
entitled “Illocutionary Act in ‘My Fair Lady’ by Alan Jay Lerner”. This is a good
study because the strength of this study is easy to understand even by the new learners of speech act. It also contains good classifications with clear explanation.
However, there is also weakness in Purwaningsih’s work in the sense that she does not explain about the context of the situation that support the illocutionary
utterances in the drama ‘ My Fair Lady’ which did not support her classification of illocutionary speech act. The difference in Purwaningsih’s work with this study
is from the data source. Purwaningsih data were taken from drama entitled My Fair Lady, while the data used in this study is taken from the movie Divergent.
The study reviewed is relevant to this study which takes speech acts as the topic of discussion.
The study conducted by Widiani 2008 entitled
“Commissive and Expressive Illocutionary Acts in Morinelli’s ‘The Sins of the Mother’ is also
reviewed here. The difference between Widiani’s study with this study is Widiani
only focuses on two kinds of illocutionary acts: commissive and expressive, while
this study tries to get all kinds of illocutionary acts found in the movie script Divergent. Her study is a good study because it easy to understand and worth
reviewing because it has a similar topic about illocutionary acts, although Widiani’s work more specifically discussed about commissive and expressive
illocutionary acts. The difference of Widiani’s work and this study is still in the
data sources. Widiani chose a play as her data source, while this study chooses a movie as the data source. The study reviewed
above is relevant to this study’s topic which takes speech acts as the topic and it gives contribution in theoritical
aspect. An article from the international journal to be reviewed here entitled
“A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Griping: The Case of Iranian Students” by Hamid
Allami, Yadz University, Iran in The Linguistics Journal, January 2006. This study is an attempt to investigate the responses provided for griping in term of six
major categories: 1 topic switchblank reply, 2 question, 3 contradiction, 4 jokingteasing, 5 advice, 6 agreementcommiseration. The strength of this paper
is that this paper chooses unique kind of communication happens in our daily life and it has an interesting discussion. The weakness found in Allami’s study is that
his study is considered complicated because it is a field research when the readers did not know the exact situation of Iranian students and also his data is written in
Arabic alphabet. Although his data is written in Arabic alphabet, the writer translated his data into English. So, the reader could understand the analysis in
Allami’s study. The study is relevant to this study’s topic which takes speech acts as the topic.