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impoliteness are relevant. This is found in most of written discourse. Asserting, reporting, announcing, and instructing belong to this type of speech acts.
The last type of speech acts is conflictive. This act suggests that the illocutionary goals conflict with the social goals. With regard to this, politeness
does not need to be questioned because the terms in this illocutionary function are used to cause offence or hurt the
hearer’s feeling. Threatening, accusing, cursing, and reprimanding are included as the examples of the conflictive.
4. Felicity Condition
Appropriate circumstances are badly needed in performing speech acts in order to be recognized as intended. Also, the right context must be matched with
the right form of words. This condition is called as a felicity condition Austin in Finch, 2000. In addition, Austin in Cutting 2002 states that the felicity
conditions refer to the context and roles of participants that must be recognized by all parties; the action must be carried out completely, and the speakers must have
the right intentions. Searle in Cutting 2002 adds that there is a general condition for all speech acts including the hearers have to listen and understand the
language, and the speakers must not be pretending or acting. The performances of speech acts will be inappropriate if there is no specific context e.g. I sentence you
to five months in the jail. This utterance will be inappropriate if it is said by ordinary people but it can be an act if it is uttered by a judge in a courtroom.
With regard to felicity condition, Yule 1996 states that there are some pre- conditions on speech acts among ordinary people in everyday contexts. The first
pre-condition deals with the general conditions of the participants. In this case, the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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participants must understand the language being used and are not play-acting or being nonsensical. The second pre-condition is content condition e.g. a promise in
that the content of the utterances must be about the future course of action. The third pre-condition is preparatory condition, for instance when someone promises
to do something, there are two preparatory conditions namely the events will not happen by itself and will have a beneficial effect. The next pre-condition is
sincerity condition for example a promise, the speaker genuinely intends to perform the future action. The last condition is essential condition which covers
the fact that by uttering a promise, the speaker intends to create an obligation to carry out the action as promised.
5. Context
