The design of this research is descriptive qualitative method since the data are in the form of words. This point discusses the way to collect, analyze, and get
thevalid data due to the need of completing the research objectives. Therefore, evenwhen certain statistics were calculated, it is used to form a descriptive
qualitativeconclusion to describe the illocutionary acts occurred on the speech.
3.2 Data and Data Source
The data are taken from the website www.youtube.com for original video
and www.harrypotterspage.com
for the script. By the title Oprah interviews J.K. Rowling Full Videos 10032010. The primary source of this study is Oprah Gail Winfrey
utterances during the show occurred. The data of this research is every sentence in those utterances that contain the illocutionary acts.
This Oprah Winfrey’s talk show was chosen as the data source because Oprah Winfrey as we know is one of the greatest talk show host and the most
influentialwoman in the world. The Oprah Winfrey talk show script contains many of conversation, in situation ask question and respond question directly and
spontaneously between Oprah and her guest star in her talk show. In additional, the transcription of the speeches is used to ease the analysis of
the speeches. This research focuses on expressive illocutionary acts in Oprah Gail Winfrey’s speeches.
3.3. Data Collection
The speeches are taken from the website that is mentioned above. The data were copied from the site and pasted in the page. Read the script of the speeches formany
times is a must in order to get a better understanding of the speeches. Related to the data collection, this research uses the following steps. First, browses the website
“YouTube” which is content of Oprah Gail Winfrey’s utterances and copying the
script from www.harrypotterspage.com. After getting the data, the next step is selecting, and picking up the data referring to the problems of this study by
classifying and selecting an illocutionary act. The last step is arranges the data systematically deal with the objective of the study.
Moreover, Nawawi’s formula is applied to count the percentage of data, to find the most dominant type of expressive illocution and the way it is performed.
Calculating data with distributive frequency is calculating the frequency of the data then frequency is percentage. From that explanation before, the percentage
of each classification of illocutionary acts was calculated through the following formula from Nawawi:
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X 100 = N
Where, X = Number of the subcategory of expressive illocutionary.
Y = Number of all data.
N = The percentage of subcategories illocutionary act.
This study using several steps to analyze the data, they are: a. Firstly, identifying and classifying the data based on Searle’s theory.
b. Secondly, analyzing the illocutionary acts that must be made in order to reach the successfulness of the speech acts.
c. Thirdly, counting the result of illocutionary acts. d. Fourthly, finding the most dominant type of illocutionary acts.
e. The Last, generating the data to make the conclusion.
