An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts In Roald Dahl The Umbrella Man Short Story

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the types of illocutionary acts, but in this case the writer only focuses on two types, namely directive and commissive acts and their realization in the short story The Umbrella Man by Roald Dahl. The theory that used to fulfill the two objectives of this research, namely the theory of Searle (1979) directive and commissive helps the writer to identify the type of directive speech act uttered by speaker. This study is qualitative descriptive research due to the fact that it uses words as data taken from the short story The Umbrella Man by Roald Dahl. As a method of analyzing data, this study uses conversation transcripts analysis which considers not only speech but also the actions involved in it. The results found there were 73 total directive and commissive data. There are 33 directives, namely Commanding 6 data (8.3%), Inviting 2 data (2.7%), Forbidding 1 data (1.3%), Requesting 2 data (2.7%), Suggesting 2 data (2.7%), Permitting 1 data (1.3%), Questioning 17 data (23.4%), Begging 2 data (2.7%) while commissive there are 40 utterances, namely Promise 3 data (4.2%), Refuse 5 data (6.9%), Pledge 27 data (36.9%), Threat 3 data (4.2%), Offer 2 data (2.7%). The dominant type of illocutionary acts in The Umbrella Man by Roald Dahl short story is Commissive Pledge, which is 27 data (36.9%). Commissive pledge is the dominant type because in the short story The Umbrella Man there are more expressions to convince someone about something