THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN NARUTO’S COMIC SCRIPT.

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THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN NARUTO’S

COMIC SCRIPT

A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department of UNIMED Medan In Partial as Fulfillment of the Requirement for

The Degree of Sarjana Sastra

By:

M. AFDILLAH DAMANIK

Registration Number 2103220025

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Alhamdulillah, the writer express her best gratitude to Allah SWT, for giving the writer blessing, endless love and mercy, especially in the process of accomplishing this thesis. In accomplishing this thesis, the writer was helped by so many beloved people and the writer would like to express her gratitude to:  Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si. the Rector of State University of

Medan.

 Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum. the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts.  Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd. the Head of English and Literature

Department.

 Dra. Meisuri, M.A. the Head of Applied Linguistics Program.

 Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M.Pd his Thesis Adviser, for the advice, guidance, comment, and precious time in supervising the draft of writing during the completion of this thesis.

 Drs. Elia Masa Gintings, M.Hum. his Academic Adviser, and all her beloved lecturers in English and Literature Department who advised and guided the writer during academic year.

 His beloved family, his father, Miswan Damanik; his mother, Tarmini, thank you for the understanding and the big support in prayer, love, motivation and financial while accomplished this thesis.

 His beloved sister, Junita Inda Sari Damanik, thank you for your support, pray and love.

 His best friend, Nanda Chairunnisa, thank you for your love, time, motivation and happiness while accomplished this thesis.

 His beloved friends in Elite Fc and Bio 2010, thanks for your support, happiness, and friendship. His special thanks also go to all friends in Applied. Linguistics A and B 2010, and many others that he cannot be mentioned one by one.

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 Mam Eis, thanks for helping the writer to complete the administration during the process of writing this thesis.

 All others whose name cannot be mentioned one by one for their help and support. Thanks for everything. May Allah bless us. Amin.

Finally, the writer admits that this thesis still far from being perfect. Therefore, the writer would like to invite the readers to give suggestion for the improvement of this thesis later on.

Medan, Juni 2014 The writer

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CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS, FINDING AND DISCUSSION ... 29

A. The Analysis of Data ... 29

B. Research Finding ... 47

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CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 51

A. Conclusion ... 51

B. Suggestion ... 52

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LIST OF TABLES

Table Page

4.1. The Total Number and Percentage of Illocutionary Acts ... 29

4.2. The Total of Illocutionary Acts in Each Chapter of Naruto Comic ... 32

4.3. Total Illocutionary Acts Used by Naruto in chapter 495 ... 33

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix A The Analysis of illocutionary acts of Naruto’s

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the study

Language is the most important aspect in the life of all human beings. We use language to express inner thoughts and emotions, make sense of complex and abstract thought, to learn to communicate with others, to fulfill our wants and needs, as well as to establish rules and maintain our culture. People use language not only to exchange sounds, words, or sentences to another. But also bring meaning because language is meaningful. When meaning is conveyed through language, people use language to interact and establish relations to influence their behavior and to express their experience to the world.

Languages can be exposed into two ways, namely written language and spoken language. Written language can be found in novel, newspaper, poetry, comic, etc, while spoken language can be found in speech, dialogue, song, etc.

Nowadays, comic become very popular in society. People enjoy comic not only as an entertainment, but also as a media in transferring information and culture. Comic itself is a visual medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or visual information. The text in comic indicates the dialogue, narration and other information.

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and consequently they will miss and cannot understand the whole story of the comic.

In comic the utterances occur when one character interact and communicate with other character in a conversation. As the process of transferring information from sender to receiver, communication becomes important thing in comic.By those communications we can get the idea of the writer directly. But sometimes, we can not get the idea of the writer because there are the meanings that implied by the utterance of character in comic that is provided by the writer. For example in the utterance “don’t believe those guys”. This utterance contains

prohibition, in this utterance, the speaker not only give statement, but prohibit the hearer to not believe those guys. The hearer or reader must know the implicit meaning of the utterances to make it easier to interpret. In this case, illocutionary acts is importantly needed.

Illocutionary act is one type of speech acts covered in pragmatic. Just as people can perform physical acts, such as hitting a baseball, they can also perform mental acts, such as imagining hitting a baseball. People can also perform another kind of act simply by using language through Speech Act.

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meaning). That is the reason why people have to interpret the meaning of communication or language through Speech act.

Many times in conversation people not only saying, but also forcing the hearer to do something. As a matter of fact, sometimes, when a person delivers an utterance or makes a statement, someone may produce three acts at the same time. They are locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary act. Locutionary act is the act that refers to the actual form of words used by the speaker and their semantic meaning. Illocutionary act is what speaker is doing by uttering those words: commanding, offering, promising, threatening, thanking etc. And perlocutionary is the actual result of the locution or the effect of utterance to the address (Peccei, 1999:44).

Some say that illocutionary act is the real speech acts. One general classification system list five types of general functions performed by Speech Acts: declarative, representative (assertive), expressive, directive, and commissive (Yule, 1996:53).

With those explanations above, the writer is interested in analyzing the illocutionary acts in Naruto’s comic script. The writer wants to analyze the illocutionary acts in Naruto’s comic script because the writer is interested to know more about the implicit meaning and also the frequency of type of illocutionary acts that exist in utterances when the characters did conversation. So, we can know the relation and the reason of the hearer’s respond.It is interesting to be

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illocutionary act, but sometimes we do not know there is the implicit meaning of speaker’s utterances and it will lead a misunderstanding.

The writer chooses comic Naruto as source of data because Naruto comic is one of the most popular comic in the world. Which was created by masashi kishimoto who is one of the most famous comic writer from japan. This comic has been sold millions copies Around the world. Naruto is one of the best-selling manga series of all time having sold more than 126.5 million copies in Japan alone. Serialized in Viz's Shonen Jump magazine, Naruto has become one of the company's best-selling manga series. The English adaptation of the series has also appeared in the USA Today Booklist several times and volume 7 won the Quill Award in 2006. Reviewers from the series have praised the balance between fighting and comedy scenes, as well as the characters' personalities, but have criticized it for using standard shōnen plot elements. Naruto comic also has transferred into movie in television program in japan. It becomes one of entertainment program that has high rating in japan.

B. Problems of the study

Based on the explanation above, the researcher has three things that will bediscussed fartherthrough the research, they are questions:

1. What types of illocutionary acts are found in Naruto’s utterances to his addresses in comic?

2. Which is the most dominant type of illocutionary acts produced by Naruto to his addresses in comic?

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C. Scope of The Study

In this research, the scope of study is limited to the types of illocutionary acts as found in the utterances of Naruto to his addresses in comic base on Searle’s theory (representative (assertive), directive, commisive, expressive, and

declarative). The source of data has been taken from comic entitle Naruto. The writer takes five chapters of Naruto’s comic script among at all of its chapter and concentrate on :Dark Naruto destroyed (chapter 495), Reunion with the kyubi (chapter 496), Kyubi vs Naruto (chapter 497), Mom’s red hair (chapter 498),and A new seal (chapter 499).

D. Objectives of the study

Related to the problems of the study formulated above, the objectives of the study are:

1. to find out the types of illocutionary acts in Naruto’s utterances to his addresses in comic

2. to find out the most dominant type of illocutionary acts in Naruto’s utterances to his addresses in comic

3. to describe the reason why the type is dominantly occurs in comic Naruto

E. Significances of The Study

The findings of this study are expected to be useful for:

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2. The teachers as a teaching material to be used in an understanding the meaning of utterances of illocutionary act in comic conversation.

3. The fans of comic as information and knowledge to know more about the application of illocutionary acts in conversation in comic and what is behind the utterance of the characters in comic.

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Representatives, Directives, Commisives, Declaratives, and Expressives. Then it is found that the most dominant types of illocutionary acts used by Naruto is “Representatives” And the least dominant types of illocutionary acts used by

Naruto is “Declaratives”. It is happened because Naruto as main character gave

more statements and information about his believes and the facts of the situation in the story. He often represented his believes about what happens to be the case of the conversation with others characters in the story. He also described himself and the situation of the story. That is why he used Representative utterances the most. And Naruto almost never changed the status of someone or ownership of something in the story. That is why he used Declarative the least.

Then based on the finding, this thesis discussions found that if someone wanted to describe about the characters and facts of the situation in the story and make someone realize something by seeing it in the different side, they usually use representatives. It had proved by the comic analyzed in this thesis and previous researcher.

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B. Suggestion

By considering the conclusions above, there are some suggestions offered: 1. The readers who want to conduct futher research in illocutionary acts

especially in adventure comic is suggested to understand the story and important role in interpreting utterances to get the intended meaning. It’s not difficult to know the intended meaning of the utterances if a person knows the story. On this research, the writer knows the story by looking the pictures and reading the speech in the balloons.

2. Besides the students, everyone is also important to study the types of illocutionary acts, because by understanding this material, it would be easier for them to understand why and for what purpose someone produces an utterance.

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