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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelLanguage is used to perform actions. When we say something, we
may also perform some kinds of acts. This argument encourages the writer to
make a study on the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts produced
by the characters in Peanuts and how they are used by them.
Austin considers that to say something may be to do something and
concludes that in uttering, one can perform three acts simultaneously : locutionary
act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. In doing her study, the writer tries to
answer several questions. First, what are the locutionary, illocutionary, and
perlocutionary acts produced by the characters in Peanuts?. Second, how are they
used by them?.
The writer chooses comic strips Peanuts edited by the Jakarta Post in
April 1999 as her source of data. In analyzing the comic strips, she uses theory of
language form by Hurford and Heasley as well as theory of speech acts by Searle
and Austin. She uses descriptive research method to describe the locutionary,
illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts produced by the characters in Peanuts and
how they are used by them.
After analyzing the data, the writer finds a declarative form may be
used for warning, realizing, suggesting, showing curiousity, showing pride,
showing happiness, hoping, showing doubt, showing gratitude, promising,
criticizing, showing disappointment, thinking, informing, showing surprise,
asserting, stating, believing, and refusing. An interrogative form may be used for
showing curiousity, showing doubt, hoping, offering, and ordering. An
imperative form may be used fox joking, suggesting, and requesting. She also
finds that culture plays a significant role in understanding a comic strip.