In this study, the researchers aim at describing illocutionary acts and most frequently found in Anies Baswedan’s speech dealing with Covid-19. The used a descriptive qualitative method to choose data. researcher tends analyze data using pragmatic theory specifically act proposed by Searle (1979) delivered Baswedan. Illocutionary can be divided into 5 types, there are representative, declarativ...

AbstractThis study aims to determine the types of directive act and its function found in American Disney movie Cruella, released 2021. The was conducted with observation method analyzed using quantitative qualitative methods. researcher collected data through several steps, such as watching times, taking note utterance indicated a act, classifying into directive. theory proposed by Searle (197...

This paper investigates whether, and if so, in what way, argumentation can be profitably described speech-act theoretical terms. I suggest that the two theories of are supposed to provide most elaborate analysis it terms (namely van Eemeren Rob Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s linguistic normative model argumentation) both suffer from same flaws: firstly, their “illocutio...