THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS OF WRITTEN CONVERSATION IN ELEVENTH GRADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ TEXTBOOK: MODUL PENGAYAAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS PEMINATAN SEMESTER 2

Nugroho, Yafet Seftyan. 2021. The Illocutionary acts of written
conversation in eleventh grade senior high school students’
textbook: Modul Pengayaan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Peminatan Semester 2, Final Project, English Study Program,
Faculty of Language an Arts Education, University of PGRI
Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Jafar Sodiq. S.Pd., M.Pd , Advisor II:
Rahmawati Sukmaningrum, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: pragmatics, speech act, illocutionary acts, textbook
This final project focuses on analyzing of type of illocutionary act as
found on Textbook: Modul Pengayaan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Peminatan Semester 2 by R. Widjaja, S.S. The objectives of the research
are (1) to find out the types of illocutionary act in Textbook: Modul
Pengayaan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris Peminatan Semester 2, (2) to
identify dominant kinds of illocutionary act in Textbook: Modul
Pengayaan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris Peminatan Semester 2. This
reseacrh was designed as descriptive qualitative research. The technique
of data collecting there are 3 steps. First, the researcher researcher tries to
identify the data or the dialogues from the written conversation which are
related to the statements of the problems according textbook. Second, the
researcher analyzed and classified the types of illocutionary act and the
dominant kinds of illocutionary act. Third, the researcher identified the
illocutionary act found in Textbook: Modul Pengayaan Bahasa dan Sastra
Inggris Peminatan Semester 2 based on types of illocutionary acts. The
result of the research shows that 1) the total number of types of the data
found were 292, there were 34 utterance of declaration, 92 utterances of
representative, 48 utterances of expressive, 95 utterances of directives,
and 26 utterances of commisive. 2) the dominant type of illocutionary
was found is directives with 95 utterences. Based on the results of this
final project, the researcher suggests that the next researchers will
analyze not only illocutionary act but also other speech act aspect, such
as locutionary act or perlocutionary act hence they can enrich their
knowledge and apply more speech act theory in their research.