AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS REALIZED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE- HIME

Rahmayanti, Yunia. 2020. An Analysis of Direct and Indirect Speech Acts
Realized by the Characters in the Story of Princess Hase- Hime. Final project,
English Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, Universitas
PGRI Semarang, Advisor I: Prof. Dr. Suwandi, M.Pd., Advisor II: Sri Wahyuni,
S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: Pragmatics, Direct Speech Act, Indirect Speech Act, Short Story
This study entitled “An Analysis of Direct and Indirect Speech Acts Realized by
the Characters in the story of Princess Hase-Hime”. This research was a
descriptive analysis that discussed about direct and indirect speech acts in the
story of princess Hase-Hime. In analyzing the script, there was used theory by
Yule (1996). The data in this research based on the characters‟ utterances. The
purpose of this analysis was to find out the types and functions of speech acts
whether it is direct speech act or indirect speech act in the story, to find out the
most dominant speech act, and its contribution to pragmatics teaching. From the
analysis, it was found that both direct speech acts and indirect speech acts are used
by the characters in this story. There were 32 direct speech acts and 15 indirect
speech act. Based on the sentence form, from all total of direct speech act, it found
19 declarative, 11 imperative, and five interrogative sentence forms. In addition to
this, for indirect speech act, there were eight imperative, 19 declarative, and five
for interrogative sentence form. In addition, based on its function there were three
functions of direct and indirect speech employed by the characters of Princess
Hase-Hime story. For direct speech act, there were 19 statement, five question,
and 11 order/request functions. For indirect one, there are only two functions,
namely 15 statement and nothing for order/request and question functions. The
researcher also found 47 speech acts employed by the characters in the story of
Princess Hase-Hime (100%), it found 32 direct speech acts (68%) and 15 indirect
speech acts (32%). It meant that the dominant one was direct speech act. The story
of Princess Hase-Hime can be used as the reference or alternative source learning
to pragmatics teaching.