THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO TWEET IN TWITTER.

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THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN SUSILO BAMBANG

YUDHOYONO TWEET IN TWITTER

A THESIS

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

The Degree of Sarjana Sastra

BY

BOEDIMAN HM SITOHANG

Registration Number 2103220008

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thanks God for His blessing, mercy, and guidance in giving the writer full strength and patience to complete this thesis. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements to obtain the S1 degree of Sarjana Sastra at English Department

in Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

In accomplishing this thesis, the writer has been helped by a lot of beloved

people especially for the loyal supporters. Therefore, the writer would like to

express her sincere and greatest gratitude to:

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State University of Medan.

 Drs. Lidiman Sahat Martua Sinaga, M.Hum, his Thesis Adviser.

 All beloved lecturers in English and Literature Department who advised

and guided the writer during academic years.

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Mam Eis for her kind help in providing academic administrations to the writer.

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ABSTRACT

Boediman HM Sitohang. 2014. The Illocutionary Act in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tweet in Twitter. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan.

This research focused on illocutionary act used in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tweet in twitter. The research was conducted by using qualitative research method. The data was collected from the twitter account of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The findings of the thesis show that there are 191 occurrences of illocutionary act which classified into five types of illocutionary act. They are declarative (5), representative (112), expressive (36), directive (32), and commissive (6). The most dominant type of illocutionary act that used in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tweet in Twitter is representative with 58,63%. The Implication is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dominantly tweet a statement such as describes, reports, inform and claims. He wants to let people know all his activity by his twitter. Beside that he makes statements which he assume is true and hope that his follower would be affected.

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1. Facebook ... 19

2. Youtube ... 20

3. Twitter ... 21

f. Biography of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ... 21

g. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono twitter accout ... 23

B. Conceptual Framework ... 26

CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD A. Research Design… ... 28

B. The Source of Data ... 28

C.The Technique of Collecting Data ... 28

D. The Technique of Analyzing Data ... 29

CHAPTER IV : THE DATA, DATA ANALYSIS & FINDINGS A. Data… ... 30

B. Data Analysis ... 30

1. The Dominant Type Of Illocutionary Act ... 37

2. The Implication of the Dominant Type Of Illocutionary Act 37 E. Research Findings ... 38

CHAPTER V : CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS A. Coclusions ... 40

B. Suggestions ... 41

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List of Table

Table 4.1 The total number of tweet and illocutionary act………. 36

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LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX A The Analysis of the illocutionary act in Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono tweet in twitter………... 44

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.Background of the Study

Language cannot be separated from human in their daily life because it has

an important role to connect one another in communication. By using language in

the daily life, people as social creatures show their community interests. Language

then has other functions such as to express themselves, make an interaction with

oneanother and to exercise a social control depending on many situations.

This study focuses on analyzing the classification of illocutionary act in

the Susilo‟s twitters. The writer will use the five classifications from Searle‟s

theory to analyze them such as Declarative, Representative, Expressive, Directive,

and Commissive.

Twitter is a service where we can share information to many people

around the world. Twitter consists of short messages of only 140 characters, the

message is like the chirping of birds, called Tweets. The initial concept of twitter

is a system that users can send messages to be propagated to all friends . By doing

discussion and correction in the system , so this time twitter has grown into a

social networking service that has features to publish a short post or a similar

status to the SMS that can be accessed on the Internet .

Writer interested analyze twitter because in this era twitter has been very

phenomenal in the world and it has become a media to distribute opinions,

criticism, expectations, and also various kinds of ideas to others and ourselves.

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happy, sad and angry. In this case writer analyze the SBY twitter because twitter

SBY also very phenomenal and got a variety of reactions from the public, some of

which are appreciated but not a few who criticize and even blasphemous. In this

case the writer is interested to analyze SBY status in twitter base on five types of

illocutionary act.

Illocutionary act is one type of speech act covered pragmatics. 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 also perform another

kind of act simply by using language; these are called speech acts. ( Jennedy;

Polletto&Weldon, 1994: 229). I agree with that explanation becauseit

Illocutionary act is part of pragmatics. An explanation helped me in doing my

research.

As stated by Peccei (1999: 44), Austin pointed out that in analyzing a

speech act, we need to make a distinction between the locution and illocution. The

locution is the actual form of words used by the speaker and their semantic

meaning. The illocution is what the speaker is doing by uttering those words;

commanding, offering, promising, threatening, thanking, etc. For example, the

locution of the utterance “ Give some cash” would be “ hand some money over to

me”. Meanwhile the illocution of the same utterance performed the act of

requesting the addressee to give him some cash. Austin also distinguished the

third part of speech acts namely the perlocution. This is the actual result of the

locution. (Peccei, 1999 : 44) For example, the former utterance could have any of

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money; the addressee refused to give him the money‟ etc. The perlocution is

defined by the addresse reaction. Austin idea that is possible to state the necessary

conditions for a particular illocution to „count‟ was developed further by John

Searle ( Peccei, 1999 : 50 ).

Some said that illocutionary act was the real speech acts. One general

classification system lists five types of general functions performed by speech

acts, such as : Declarative, Representative, Expressive, Directive and

Commissive( Yule, 1996 : 53). Declarative is the kind of illocutionary act that

change the world via the speaker‟s utterance, for example from one of

Susilo‟stweet :“Insya Allah, dgn kebijakan & cara ini, Riau akan berubah.

*SBY*”.This tweet counted as declarative because the speaker declare that with

that policy that will change something tobe better. Representative is the kind of

illocutionary act that what the speaker believes tobe case or not. For example

,“TNI AU juga mendapatkan 9 CN-235, 9 C-130, sejumlah helicopter & pesawat

latih baru, serta Pesawat Terbang Tanpa Awak. *SBY*” is counted as

representative because the speaker knows sure that his statement is true.

Expressive is the kind of illocutionary that state what the speaker feels. For

example: Turut berduka cita atas kecelakaan yg menimpa siswa siswi SMK N 1

Pandeglang. Semoga keluarga & sekolah diberi ketabahan. *SBY* is counted as

expressive because the speaker express his feeling towards to the student who got

the accident.Directives is the kind of illocutionary act which the speaker gets

someone to do something. For example: Saya jg ingin para pejabat daerah di

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rakyat jd korban. *SBY*is counted as directive because its clearly seen that the

speaker want the local government to handle the serious problem in

Riau.Commissive is the kind of illocutionary acts that speaker use to commit

themselvesto do something in the future. For example: Ke depan jika masih ada

pihak - pihak yg membakar & sebabkan bencana lagi, hokum harus ditegakkan

secara tegas, keras & cepat. *SBY* is counted as commissives because the

speaker promise that next, if there is a forest fire again, then the law must be

enforced.

Many other previous studies analyze about illocutionary act in some

different media. ( Fransisca2011 : 5) analyzed the illocutionary act used on „Alex

Dialogue in Movie Madagascar 3 : Europe‟s Most Wanted‟.The writer intended

to find the dominant illocutionary acts focuses in Alex dialogue. (Manaria, 2012 :

7) analyzed „The Illocutionary acts used in the Adele‟s 21 Album‟. The

writerstudy intended to show what is the dominant types of illocutionary acts in

that album and the implication to the reader who listen the Adele songs.

Megowan in journal „ A Partial Defense of Illocutionary Silencing (2011)‟

got the result expressive because dominantly about women who got traumatic.

The second journal is Shalev wrote „Illocutionary clauses accompanying

questions in Greek drama and in Platonic dialogue ( 2001 )‟ and the result is she

found that questions can be directive purpose. Third, Corrigan in his journal „

Speech acts, generic differences, and the curious case of „Cymbeline‟ (2002)‟.

The result is he found mixed between the five types of illocutionary act by Searle

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Based on the explanation, this study will analyze the illocutionary act in

Susilo BambangYudhoyono tweet. This study will be useful to know how Susilo

perform illocutionary act when he update his tweet on twitter and how often he

produces certain type of illocutionary acts. This study is also interesting because

from this research the reader will know what is the dominant type of illocutionary

act from every single Susilo‟s tweet.

B.Problem of The Study

Based on the background of the study some problems are formulated as

the following:

1. What types of illocutionary act are used in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

direct tweet on twitter

2. What is the dominant type of illocutionary act used in Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono direct tweet on twitter

3. What is the implication of the dominant type of illocutionary act to the

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono direct tweet on twitter

C.Objective of Study

Related to the problem of the study, the objectives of the study are:

1. To find out the illocutionary act classification used in Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono direct tweet on twitter.

2. To find out the dominant type of illocutionary act used in Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono direct tweet on twitter

3. To find out the implication of illocutionary act that is dominantly used in

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D.The Scope of Study

This study is focused on analyzing the illocutionary act thatare used in

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono direct tweet in two months. The data will take from

2nd of February 2014tothe 2nd of April 2014. According to Searle‟s theory, there

are five classification of illocutionary act used in this study, such as Declarative,

Representative, Expressive, Directive, and Commissive.

E.The Significance of the Study

The findings of study are expected to be useful for :

1. Students of the English Department who study pragmatics as conditions to

analyze the classification of illocutionary act in text.

2. Readers who want to improve their knowledge and get more understanding

of how illocutionary act are used.

3. Readers who want to get more background information about Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono tweets based on the five types of illocutionary act.

4. Researchers who want to use the findings as a reference in the study of

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

A.Conclusions

After analyzing the illocutionary act in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tweet,

following conclusions are drawn

1. There are 191 Illocutionary Act in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tweet.

There five types of illocutionary act that occurred in Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono tweet, they are declarative (2,61%), representative (58,63%),

expressive (18,84%), directive (16,75%) and Commissive (3,14%).

2. The most dominant types of illocutionary act that found in those tweets is

Representative (58,63%), Representative becomes the most dominant

types of illocutionary act, because most of Susilo tweets are describing,

statement, and as we know describing and statement are part of

representative.

3. The Implication is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was dominantly tweet a

statement such as describes, reports, inform and claims. He wants to let

people know all his activity by his twitter. Beside that he makes statements

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B. Suggestions

By considering the research finding and the conclusions, there are some

suggestions which are presented as follows:

1. Students need to improve their knowledge about illocutionary act, so that

they can avoid miss understanding in communication and can understand

the purpose of social media such as facebook or twitter that usually using

illocutionary act.

2. Readers are suggested to improve their knowledge about illocutionary act

and make the study become interesting.

3. Readers are suggested to make more depth analysis of illocutionary act in

twitter.

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