Magazine April 2013 edition become the object of this thesis because there are many illocutionary acts happen in this magazine although it is a scientific magazine. By
using illocutionary, we could ask someone to do some action or we can express an action just by using an utterance. Illocutionary become the most interesting topic
compared with locutionary and perlocutionary. Locutionary is just an ordinary act without any certain action intended meanwhile the perlocutionary is an action of
asking someone to do something by using utterances or sentences. As we see, Illocutionary act is the act that performed through utterances and it is completely
different with the locutionary and perlocutionary act. Illocutionary act become an interesting topic to be analyzed because we may learn to perform many actions just
by using the utterances or sentences.
1.2 Problems of The Study
The problem of the study is an important thing for the thesis in order that the researcher will not get lost in discussing the main topic of the thesis. Based on the
background above, the problems of the study of this thesis are formed as bellow: 1.
What types of illocutionary acts that are found in some selected Discover Magazine’s articles?
2. What are the intentions of each illocutionary acts performed in some
selected Discover magazine’s articles? 3.
What is the most dominant type of illocutionary acts found in some selected Discover magazine’s articles?
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1.3 Objective of the study
The objective of this research is to improve the student’s knowledge about the illocutionary acts. Discussing about illocutionary acts, there are many types of it.
As stated at the problems of the study above, below are the objectives of the study to answer the problems of the analysis namely:
1. To find out the number and types of illocutionary acts in some selected Discover Magazine’s articles.
2. To interpret the intention of each illocutionary acts found in some selected Discover Magazine’s articles.
3. To determine the most dominant type of illocutionary acts in Discover Magazine’s some selected articles.
1.4 Scope of the Study
It is necessary to limit the analysis to avoid the vagueness since the object of speech acts is too wide. The analysis would be limited only on the illocutionary acts.
There are only five types of illocutionary will be discussed on this thesis namely: assertive, expressive, directives, declarative, and commissives. Therefore, the
illocutionary act types and the intention of utterance in Discover Magazine would be the focus of this thesis. The Discover Magazine on April 2013 edition would be the
object of this thesis. This analysis would be valid only for the Discover Magazine on April 2013 edition. The object of the analysis is limited only for five selected
articles. Through this scope of analysis, it will help the readers to figure out the major problems and ideas properly.
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1.5 Significance of the Study
