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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelSpeech acts play an important role in human interaction because when we
say something, we do not deliver only the meaning of the utterance but also the
intended meaning beyond it. It also deals with words and doing things. There may
be some action behind the words that someone utters in their conversation. In this
research, The types of the illocutionary acts used by all the characters in the
courtroom scenes of Ally McBeal TV Series, the writer makes an analysis on the
types of the illocutionary acts of the utterances performed by the participants in
the courtroom and also the percentage of occurrence on the data. The scope of this
study is the utterances on the courtroom of all the characters on Ally McBeal TV
series episode two ?They Eat the Horses, Don?t They??. The limitation of this
study is on pragmatics. The writer uses some theories on speech acts as put
forward by Langacker and Traugott & Pratt. The writer also uses internet World
Wide Web in searching the transcript of Ally McBeal as her data. The writer uses
some steps to make the analysis of this research. First, she divided the data on a
courtroom scene based on the transcription to make the analysis of the data easier.
Second, she analyzed the data based on the types of the illocutionary acts that may
be found by using the context of the situation. And finally, she put the result on
the table so it can easily be interpreted. From the research, the writer found out
that most of the characters used representatives (34.2%) illocutionary acts in their
verbal interaction followed by directives (25%), expressives (17.1%), commisives
(10.5%), verdictives (9.2%) and finally declarations (4%). These kinds of
illocutionary acts were found because the participants on the courtroom used some
utterances such as stating, telling, requesting, questioning, etc in the case. The
most dominant type is representative illocutionary acts.