Abstract:
This research is to analyze the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts which
are often used and also to find out the name of illocutionary act in teachinglearning
activity of reading class A in the sixth semester of English Department of
Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year 2012/2013.
This research is a descriptive qualitative research because it is aimed to
analyze the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts and the form of data is in the
word form rather than number. This research is an analysis to get information
concerning with the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts used in the teachinglearning
activity of reading class A in the sixth semester of English Department of
Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year 2012/2013.
The result of this research shows that the researcher finds thirty nine
illocutionary acts and twenty nine perlocutionary acts. From this research, the
researcher also finds there are thiteen kinds of illocutionary acts which are used by
the speakers in the teaching-learning activity. They are four illocutionary acts of
admitting and three perlocutionary acts, two illocutionary acts of apologizing and
a perlocutionary act, two illocutionary acts of challenging and two perlocutionary
acts, an illocutionary act of complaining and a perlocutionary act, five
illocutionary acts of greeting and five perlocutionary acts, two illocutionary acts
of leave-taking and two perlocutionary acts, six illocutionary acts of mocking and
three perlocutionary acts, an illocutionary act of naming and no perlocutionary
act, three illocutionary acts of offering and two perlocutionary act, three
illocutionary acts of praising and three perlocutionary acts, six illocutionary acts
of protesting and six perlocutionary acts, two illocutionary acts of recommending
and no perlocutionary act , two illocutionary acts of thanking and a perlocutionary
act. From the explaination, the names of illocutionary acts which are often used in
teaching-learning activity of reading class A in the sixth semester of English
Department of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year
2012/2013 are mocking and protesting.
The researcher hopes that this thesis will enrich the knowledge of
pragmatics, especially illocutionary and perlocutionary acts for the teachers and
students who should be able to understand and use illocutionary and
perlocutionary acts appropriately in teaching-learning activity. And it also give
experiences for the readers.
