AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS REALIZED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE- HIME

Abstract

Rahmayanti, Yunia. 2020. An Analysis of Direct and Indirect Speech Acts Realized by the Characters in the Story of Princess Hase- Hime. This research was a descriptive analysis that discussed about direct and indirect speech acts in the story of princess HaseHime. In analyzing the script, there was used theory by Yule (1996). The data in this research based on the characters’ utterances. The purpose of this analysis was to find out the types and functions of speech acts whether it is direct speech act or indirect speech act in the story, to find out the most dominant speech act, and its contribution to pragmatics teaching. From the analysis, it was found that both direct speech acts and indirect speech acts are used by the characters in this story. There were 32 direct speech acts and 15 indirect speech act. Based on the sentence form, from all total of direct speech act, it found 19 declarative, 11 imperative, and five interrogative sentence forms. In addition to this, for indirect speech act, there were eight imperative, 19 declarative, and five for interrogative sentence form. In addition, based on its function there were three functions of direct and indirect speech employed by the characters of Princess Hase-Hime story. For direct speech act, there were 19 statement, five question, and 11 order/request functions. For indirect one, there are only two functions, namely 15 statement and nothing for order/request and question functions. The researcher also found 47 speech acts employed by the characters in the story of Princess Hase-Hime (100%), it found 32 direct speech acts (68%) and 15 indirect speech acts (32%). It meant that the dominant one was direct speech act. The story of Princess Hase-Hime can be used as the reference or alternative source learning to pragmatics teaching.