A study on illocutionary acts used by the main characters in The Boor

This study investigates the illocutionary acts used by the main characters in the drama "The Boor", written by Anton Chekov. The objective of this study is to understand deeply about the types of illocutionary act by Speech Acts Theory. Speech acts theory has been investigated by many experts in the world, such as Austin as the founding father of Speech Act, and then followed by Searle, Renkema, Wardhough.

The data were obtained from the text of the drama "The Boor". The researcher limits this aspect of Illocutionary Acts refers to Searle’s theory (second theory).The study of illocutionary acts has been done by many researchers. But, They have never investigate "The Boor" in the same discussion. This theory is focused on Discourse Area, not Semantic since it is not merely to understand the meaning of the speaker’s said only but also the way of the speaker’s express or performs.

In this thesis, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative research since he tries to describe and explain the phenomena of illocutionary act used by the main characters in "The Boor". Then, the result of this research is expected to be useful for researchers to understand illocutionary act in drama "The Boor".

The instrument of this study is the researcher himself. It is because the data of this study is the text of "The Boor". This study found that illocutionary acts used by the main characters such as: directives, assertive, commisives, expressives, and declarative.