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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a study of illocutionary act, which is a study of making a
statement in a certain form with a conventional force. Through this study, the
writer wants to analyse the illocutionary act types from the presenter?s speech.
The writer chooses the theory of illocutionary act types categorized by Searle
to analysed the illocutionary acts type of the utterance in the data. The writer
choose the program of DJ FM radio named `Bed Cover? that presented by a
radio announcer named Julian because `Bed Cover? is an interactive program
in which the announcer communicate actively with the callers about personal
topic. It might be about their family, boyfriend or girlfriend, and many more.
Those personal topics attracts the writer to know the illocutionary act behind
it by analyzing the types. The analysis shows that the data have representative
(29 of the data(36,7%)), directive (30 of the data(38%)), expressive (24 of the
data(24%)), and commisive (one of the data(1.3%)) types of illocutionary
acts, and directive is the most dominant type in the data. These results shows
that Julian was tried to motivates the callers to do something by giving
suggestions, advices, or daring the callers and he supported it with opinions
and ideas in order to convince and persuade the caller to believe what he says.