ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS PERFORMED IN STAND-UP COMEDY SHOW BY MICHAEL JR (Pragmatic Analysis)

UMNIATUL RAHMA. 2017. Illocutionary Acts Performed In Stand-Up Comedy Show By Michael Jr. A Pragmatic Analysis (Supervised by Abidin Pammu dan Sitti Sahraeny).

​This research aimed to find out the types of direct illocutionary acts and indirect illocutionary acts which are found in stand-up comedy show by Michael Jr. This research also intends to examine other intention of the speakers’ utterance in stand-up comedy, because indirectly humor gives the speaker the possibility to share a truth elegantly and subtly without hurting the other feelings.

​The design of this research was descriptive qualitative method. The writer collected the necessary data in this research, and then she identified every utterance which uttered by the speaker into direct illocutionary acts and indirect illocutionary acts. After that, the writer analyzed and interpreted the speaker’s intention in each type of act. Thus, it showed the difference of the speaker’s intention between the direct and indirect illocutionary acts.

​The results of this research indicate that there were 77 analyzed sentences are having direct and indirect illocutionary acts. For the types of direct illocutionary acts, there were found 58 acts of asserting, 7 acts of ordering, and 12 acts of asking. And for the types of indirect illocutionary acts, the writer found some kinds of acts, they are classified into: informing, reminding, advising, confusing, motivating, complaining, requesting, convincing, ordering, blessing, promising, affirming, realizing, predicting, thanking, appreciating, declaring, greeting, introducing, denying, insulting, clarifying, suggestion, blaming, remembering, praising, indifferenting, persuading, forbidding. Thus, it is indicated that there was another function in stand-up comedy besides entertaining, it also to informing, motivating, or criticizing.

Keywords: utterance, illocution, speech act, stand-up comedy