A study on speech acts used by backstreet boys in Arjosari Malang

ABSTRACT

The study of language in society focuses on utterances produced by people in their daily conversation. The utterances, which arc spoken by people, intend ol act and always produce an act relates to the listener, this always called speech act.

The researcher focused on the kinds of speech act used by backstreet boys in Arjosari - malang which are analyzed viewed on Austin’s theory (see 2.1.1), they are Locutionary act, Illocutionary act and Perlocutionary act. While the function of speech act is analyzed viewed on Leech’s theory (see 2.1.3) In this case, the researcher focused on the Illocutionary act which has four function: Competitive,.،٩ convivial, collaborative and confiictive function. In other hand, the Locutionary act and Perlocutionary act have not function anymore.

The researcher uses the descriptive qualitative research in this study. The data are taken from the natural utterance which is produced by backstreet boys and the guide in the daily conversation in Arjosari-Malang. In this case, the researcher came him self to the backstreet boys area and became the main instrument by doing observation, interviewing, taking notes and recording in order to get the valid data. While the researcher uses triangulation in order to make this research perfect.

As the result of the research, the researcher finds all kinds of speech act used by backstreet boys and the Guide. They arelocutionaryact (54), Illocutionary act (42), and perlocutionary act (27). On the other hand, the researcher finds the function of speech act intended on Illocutionary act used by backstreet boys. They are Competitive Function (19), Convivial function (4)و Collaborative function (13) and conflictive function (2). On the contrary, the researcher does not find the function of locutionary ac and perlocutionary act in this research because basically, both of them have no function.

Based on the result above, it can be indicated that the backstreet boys often use the Illocutionary act in their daily conversation that mostly use competitive function such as; asking act, ordering act and demanding act.

Finally, the researcher suggests to further researcher who intend in the social research especially in sociolinguistic area in order to continue and increase the , research on Backstreet boys’ phenomena through other perspective. Because there are so many phenomena related to the Backstreet boys that need to investigated and researched.