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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about the types of illocutionary acts of Batman?s utterances to
his addressees. The writer chooses this topic because sometimes what a person says is
indirect, his or her utterance may have intended meaning that the addressees must
interpret it. The writer chooses "The Freedom of Madness" to be investigated
because this comic is popular and the readers should read and understand this part
before they read other parts of this comic. It is because there are eleven different
stories in this comic and the stories are related one to another. In this research, the
writer only focuses on Batman?s utterances because he produces more utterances
rather than other characters. Besides, many of his utterances consist of illocutionary
acts. In this research, the writer attempts to find out the types of illocutionary acts of
Batman?s utterances to his addressees. Also, she wants to find out the frequency of
occurrence of the type of illocutionary acts in "The Freedom of Madness". The scope
of this study is discourse analysis and the limitation is the utterances that are
produced by Batman to his addressees in a comic entitled "The Freedom of
Madness". The writer uses the theories of speech acts by Finch, and theory of context
by Brown and Yule. The writer takes some steps to make the analysis on this
research. First, the writer transcribes the data based on page and give the context of
the utterances. Second, she analyzes the data based on the theory of speech acts
especially illocutionary acts. Also, the writer uses context of situation in interpreting
the intended meaning of the utterances. Last, the writer puts the result on the table so
it can be easily seen. From the research, the writer finds out that Batman?s utterances
to his addressees contain all types of illocutionary acts. They are directive,
representative, commissive, expressive, and declarative. The most type that occur in
Batman?s utterances to his addressees is directive. The writer concludes that
messages could be delivered in different ways depending on the context. The features
of context are the participants, the topic, the setting, the function, and the event.