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Both of these types of speech acts are found in the data in Bully video game. The findings of these types of speech acts based on the directness are
presented in the Table 3.
Table 3. The Way Speech Acts Delivered by the Main Character in Bully
Video Game
No. Types of Speech Act Based on Directness
Frequency Percentage
1. Direct Speech Act
195 90.3
2. Indirect Speech Act
21 9.7
Total 216
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These types of speech acts and the direct and indirect speech acts will be
explained in the following section.
B. Discussion
The researcher analyzes the phenomena of pragmatics especially speech acts which are performed in Bully video game. There are two points of discussion
present. The first point discusses the types of speech acts based on Searle’s
classification. The second point discusses the way speech acts are delivered.
1. Types of Speech Acts based on Searle’s Classification
The findings of the data presents that there are four kinds of speech acts based on
Searle’s classification performed by the main character in Bully video game. They are representatives, directives, commissives, and expressives.
Declaratives were not found in the interaction among the character, because the main character has no privileges to perform them.
The types of speech acts based on Searle’s classification are discussed in
detailed analysis as follows.
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a. Representatives
Representatives are the kind of speech act that states what the speaker believes to be the case or not. It commits the speaker to the truth of expressed
proposition such as asserting, concluding, describing, claiming, insisting. The findings on the type of representatives acts are 50 data or 23.14 from total data.
There are 10 types of representatives acts found in Bully video game. Those are reporting, confirming, arguing, informing, explaining, stating, lying, convincing,
predicting and describing. Each of those types is explained in the following paragraphs.
1 Reporting
Reporting is retelling something that one has heard, told or observed. Reporting occurs 3 times in the data or about 1.39 from total 216 data. These
are the examples of reporting found in Bully video game. M : Jimmy, please say something.
NS : James. JH : What? who are you? mom I thought you told me never talk to
stranger.
2InDRep-Exp1-00 The dialogue above happens between Jimmy, his mom, and his new stepfather.
The setting is in the moving car which is heading to Jimmy’s new school.
Jimmy’s mom starts the conversation by asking Jimmy to say something, because there is only silence. His new stepfather also calls him. Instead, Jimmy responses
it angrily and says to her mom that she told him not to talk to someone unfamiliar. Here is another example from the act of reporting found in Bully video
game.
