AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY AND PERLOCUTIONARY ACT IN DETECTIVE CONAN COMIC A Thesis Submitted to Faculty of Adab and Humanities In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For Bachelor Degree on English Letters RISKA RAHMAN 1111026000051 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LETTERS DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITIES SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY JAKARTA 2015 i ABSTRACT Riska Rahman, An Analysis of Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Act In Detective Conan Conan. A thesis: English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, October 2015. This research focuses on the using of illocutionary act in Detective Conan comic and the way the illocutionary successfully or unsuccessfully meet the perlocutionary act. The aims of this research are to find out the classification of Illocutionary Acts used in comic Detective Conan and how the hearer gives the perlocutionary effect to the speaker. The methodology used in this research is qualitative descriptive. The researcher collects the data from the comic, and then describes the classification of Illocutionary Acts and the way illocutionary act meet the perlocutionary effect in every utterance. Based on the theories method provided, the data are analyzed one by one to know the classification of Illocutionary Acts and the way illocutionary act meet the perlocutionary effect. To focus on the research, his research limits the data into fifty three data. The researcher found all the classification of illocutionary acts used in Detective Conan comic; Declarations, Representatives, Expressives, Directives, and Commissives. Furthermore, the researcher found various ways the perlocutionary effects successful or unsuccessful after the speech act are uttered. Some perlocutionary effects are successful with body language assist. ii DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is original work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institutions of higher learning, except where due to acknowledgement has been made in the text. Jakarta, Oktober 2015 Riska Rahman v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to give praise to Allah SWT for the blessings and miracles to me till I can totally finish this thesis. Then, peace and blessing are upon to our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW. Furthermore, I want to show my great appreciation and enormous thanks to Ayah, Ibu, and also my little brother, Al Fajri for their do‟a and supports. Additionally, my special gratitude goes to the dearest Bagus Wijaya for his support and patient during I did this thesis. Conclusively, being so grateful having you all. I also give thanks for the intellectual and moral support to all the following people in my life: 1. My Advisor, Mr. Addurrosyid, M.EIL, I would like to express my deep gratitude to him for his sharing knowledge. I also thank to him for his guidance and support. He gives his appreciation and willingness in reading my thesis, discussing and giving me feedback on both suggestion and useful critiques of my thesis. I realize that I am fortunate to be under of his supervision for his responsibility to guide my research. 2. The dean of Adab and Humanity Faculty, Prof. Dr. Sukran Kamil, M.A, The head of English Letters Department, Drs. Asep Saefuddin, M.Pd., The secretary of English Letters Department, and Mrs. Elve Oktafiani, M.Hum. I thank to them for their helping and teaching during studying here. 3. I thank to my examiners, Mrs. Rima Muryantina, M.Ling. and Mr. Hilmi, vi M.Hum. for their guidance to make my thesis perfect after the examination. 4. I thank to all my teachers and lecturers for the sciences which they had taught. Especially, my Structure 1 lecturer, Mr. Dhuha Hardiyansyah M.Hum, I am deeply blessing because of his lecturing and humbly sharing knowledge before doing my research. 5. To my beloved friends: Puput Eka Saputri, Astry Amelia, M. Adi, Arasy, M. Dimyati, Berliana, Rania Marhana, Eka Safitri, Dewi Mustika, Hanum Fitrah, Nurul Aini Saputri, Septian Sesco, Septi Andari, Devita Adriani, Norra, and Yuni Asri, I would express my thankfulness for your spiritual spirit. I hearty thank for the discussing, motivating, and giving me much wonderful time together. Additionally, you make me belief that one of the true loves is the endless friendship. 6. To the diseases which came during doing this thesis even though they are not humans, I say “thanks” because they successfully taught me to stay strong without any giving up. 7. Last, I thank to all friends in 12 IPA 4, Ka Dhea Saki, Hanif, all friends in ELD class B, Linguistics Class, KKN RED and HMJ BSI. Thank you for being friend and also allotting much knowledge. Jakarta, Oktober 2015 The Writer vii THE LIST OF TABLE TABLE 1 ......................................................................................................... 18 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... i APPROVEMENT .......................................................................................... ii LEGALIZATION .......................................................................................... iii DECLARATION............................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................ v THE LIST OF TABLE .................................................................................. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................................... viii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION............................................................... 1 a. Research Background........................................................................... 1 b. Research Focus..................................................................................... 5 c. Research Questions .............................................................................. 5 d. Significance of the Research ................................................................ 5 e. Research Methodology......................................................................... 6 1. The Objectives of the Research...................................................... 6 2. The Method of the Research .......................................................... 6 3. The Techniques of Data Analysis .................................................. 7 4. The Unit of Analysis ...................................................................... 7 5. The Instrument of the Research ..................................................... 8 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK .................................. 9 A. Previous study ...................................................................................... 9 B. Speech Act Definition .......................................................................... 12 ix C. Types of Speech Act ............................................................................ 13 1. Locutionary Act ............................................................................... 14 2. Illocutionary Act .............................................................................. 14 3. Perlocutionary Act ........................................................................... 15 D. Classification of Illocutionary Act ....................................................... 15 a. Declarations ..................................................................................... 16 b. Representatives ................................................................................ 16 c. Expressives ...................................................................................... 16 d. Directives ......................................................................................... 17 e. Commissives.................................................................................... 18 E. Direct and Indirect Speech Act ............................................................ 18 CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS ............................................................ 22 A. Data Description................................................................................... 22 B. Data Analysis ....................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER IV CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ........................ 70 a. Conclusions .......................................................................................... 70 b. Suggestions .......................................................................................... 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................... 73 APPENDICES ................................................................................................ 75 x