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Illocutionary Act in The Ellen Degenerates Show (Episode Adam Levine’s New Girlfriend)
This thesis discusses about the types of illocutionary acts in Ellen
DeGeneres Talk Show. The objectives of this study were to find out the
types of illocutionary act occur in Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show, to describe
the type of illocutionary act performed by the speaker in EllenDeGeneres
Talk Show. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. It took one
episode of Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show which is Adam Levine New
girlfriend episode.
The researcher as the main instrument took note-taking in collecting
and evaluating data based on the theory used of Searle (1969). As for the
results, the findings showed a total of 68 data and 4 types of illocutionary
acts used in Ellen DeGeneres show. It summed 49 data of representative,
10 data of expressive, 7 data of directive and 2 data of commissive types.
The researcher does not find declaration in the dialogue because there is no
utterance that has function that can change the world or the status of people
through speaker’s utterance.
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