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9 is considered as ill-sequences. It clarifies that the adjacency pair is fulfilled in the
conversation. The research by
Tusita Mania Dewi analyzes Olive Penderghast’s speech acts in Easy A movie for her thesis of English Language Education Study Program.
She conducts her research to find out how Olive Penderghast’s speech acts are employed in the conversation in the movie by using the theory from Searle 1999.
She also analyzes what speech acts Olive uses before and after the transformation of her character in the movie. The study analyzes spoken dialogue; and the result is
the description of explanation. The result finds that there are four speech act categories that Olive uses based on Searle’s theory. There are assertive, commisive,
directive, and expressive. There is no declarative category because it is rarely used in daily communication. The most category used is assertive category, 63 of all.
The research also finds out powerful speech acts support to build Olive’s new image, from an ordinary student to a bad naughty girl. However, the powerful
speech acts appear when certain situation forces her. The study by M. Hashim investigates the role of language in the
communication and interpretation of intentions by examining selected political speeches of John Kerry in Presidential Campaign in 2004 and George Bush’s
Inaugural address in 2001. The study is to identify the speech act features, to analyze the features in relation to the contexts, and to determine how the identified
features project the message in the speeches. The study focused on the locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. Twenty sentences were selected from the two
speeches. The data were selected of John Kerry from the 2004 Presidential PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
10 Campaign about The Economy and Middle Class Families and the second is Bush
’s speech of Inaugural address in 2001. The selected speeches were downloaded from
the internet and analyzed to show the speech acts performed in the course delivering the speeches. The linguistic approach adopted Theory of Austin 1962 and Searle
1969. In order to make the analysis clear and easy to understand, the calculation of the percentages of the speech acts in a speech is made so as to make interpretation
of the tables clear and empirical. The findings show that the overall relative frequency percentages for the selected speeches are: commissive 40, assertive
35, directive 20, and expressive 5. The results show that Kerry relied on sentences that performed commissive acts since he committed to some future
actions, and he promised to make the world fit the words. Besides, Bush used sentences with assertive acts because the assertive has a truth value which can only
enhance the effect of the asserted proposition. Hence, the data are characterized by a preponderance of commissive, assertive and directive acts that are mostly used as
mobilization strategies in political campaigns, where it is essential for candidates to persuade their listeners to win elections. The revelation of the speech act dominance
is a reflection of the purpose of political speeches which are to influence, persuade, impress, convince, and even to deceive the populace
The study by Sattar examines the speech act of criticism among Iranian native speakers of Persian. The study focuses
on Iranians’ perception and production of speech act of criticism. Data are based on the distribution of a
Discourse Evaluation Test DET and a structured interview to 100 Iranian native speakers of Persian at Payame Noor University, Iran. The corpus was then analyzed
11 and categorized based on Nguyen’s 2005 coding scheme. The overall findings
showed that the use of direct strategies outnumbered that of indirect strategies and mitigating devices. However, one distinctive feature of the present data was that
politeness is achieved through the use of mitigating devices. Elisabeth Rosalia also analyzes Text Your Say column. She focuses on
moods expressed and modals used in the column. The objective of her study is to reveal the moods that are expressed in Text Your Say column of the Jakarta Post
issued in November 2012. Besides, she also finds out how the modals are used in the Text Your Say column of the Jakarta Post issued in November 2012. The study
uses document analysis. The data is the comments in Text Your Say issued in November 2012. As the result, she finds out 563 moods both major and minor
moods were expressed in the comment of Text Your Say based on Harnish’s classification 2015. There are 33 imperative moods, 472 declarative moods, 26
WH-interrogative moods, and 9 yes or no interrogative moods, 17 exclamative moods, 2 incredulity responses, 2 optative moods, and 2 interjection moods. For
another problem, she finds 225 modals used by comentators in Text Your Say, such as should, might, had better, will, could, would, be able to, etc. These modals
express necessity, possibility, prohibition, expectation, etc. From the previous studies above, it can be seen that those researchers
analyze speech act in film, speech, and interview. One of the previous studies also concerns in same subject but has different focus. TYS column in the Jakarta Post
newspaper is used as a subject of the research. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
12 Even though this research also analyzes speech acts, there is still difference
from them. The main focus of this study is to analyze speech acts in in written communication. This study analyzes speech act categories and TYS column in the
Jakarta Post newspaper is a subject for this speech act study.