This study explores the usage of commissive speech acts in women-centric movies "Little Women" and "Enola Holmes." It employs Searle's classification (1979), along with Hymes' social structure theory (2001) Brown Levinson's politeness (1987). The analysis uncovers various types set nineteenth century. Furthermore, it reveals that employment strategies employed by characters are significantly in...

Can commitments be generated without promises or gestures conventionally interpreted as such? We hypothesized that people believe are in place when one agent has led a recipient to rely on her do something, even commissive speech act any action conventionalized such, and this is mutual knowledge. To probe this, we presented participants with online vignettes describing everyday situations which...

This study aims to find out the commissive illocutionary acts which are implied by characters in novel She Wore Red Trainers (2014) Na’ima Robert. It identify types of found selected novel. uses a descriptive- qualitative method examine collected data. The data utterances from text These classified on basis speech act theories Austin (1962) and Searle (1969), into three acts: offering, promisin...

Sarcasm typically uses particular phrases in a figurative sense, and occasionally contains insults or reproaches, which makes it unpleasant to hear. However, certain context, sarcasm is also used make remarks, criticism, advice towards an individual group of people, related issue. This study analyses the use NgekTsaiArmy Official YouTube videos, channel managed by NgekTsai who famous social med...

The present study aims to find out the types of illocutionary act in Nadhira Afifa’s speech as a student’s speaker Master Public Health Harvard Graduation 2020. which was promoted by Yule (1996) focused this study. used qualitative descriptive analyzing Nadhira’s main data. Furthermore, sources data collected downloading video from YouTube. Then, are analyzed and transcribed into written form. ...

This study aims to analyze the types of Illocutionary acts used by characters in movie Imperfect. research applies qualitative descriptive method. The writer uses 65 speech samples from this and chooses them randomly movie. It is found that there are five Imperfect, namely: Representative, Directive, Commissive, Expressive, Declarative. total about 157 utterances. Representative has 47 utteranc...

Language usage in a court trial of criminal case is usually associated with utterances that lead to justification the imposed punishment for offender. Utterances are categorized as performative speech act. Each utterance can be into five types speech, namely representatives, directives, commissive, expressive, and declaratives. This descriptive study uses text analysis technique, by analysing d...

The fact cannot be denied that how a single reality is the supremacy of America, still continues its pace over world. Also, American ideals are vastly universal and vaguely used in political discourses to legitimize mission. Qualitative mode inquiry has been employed assess speech for this, Speech Act theory Austin (1962) Searle (1969) as framework. tabular presentation analysis shown relative ...

This research focuses on the problem of correlation between discursive modality and illocutionary force - with substantiating variations in as a pragmatic basis for scale-paradigm deontic modality, influencing binding international instruments. Guided by criterion explicitness implicitness markers, well their localization performative or propositional part, paper categorizes five classes commis...

ABSTRACT
 The purpose of this study is to discuss three types speech acts in which there are elocutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. From the acts, researcher also describes forms among others. a) Locutionary have forms, namely statements, questions, orders. b) illocutionary assertive, directive, expressive, commissive declaration c) Perloksui act.
 In conducting researc...