Illocutionary act used by transsexual people in Malang

ABSTRACT

It is strongly impossible for us as human being to avoid making conversation with other people everyday, because in conversation includes language which is principally as a means of communication. In communication, people used a language to perform their feelings, ideas, thought and purpose. In the other side, the speaker does not only do something to himself, he also requires something from the listener (Chaika 1982: 70). It can be in the form of an offer, command, statement, and question. There is a close relationship between language and action.

Then the study here is illocutionary act and it includes discourse study. Discourse study is the field study that is to do an investigation of the relationship between form and function in verbal communication (Jan Renkema 1993. 1). Research on the relationship between language form and function has been greatly seen as a form of acting.

This research concern with the kind of illocutionary acts used by transsexual people in Malang whojoined in IWAMA community. The writer chosed this area under the reason their illocutionary acts are more attractive than male’s and female’s illocutionary acts. And the second reason is they have their own stressing, intonation, and gesture.

The descriptive qualitative research is as design of this study. The data are in the form of the words, phrases, sentences and utterance of transsexual people of IWAMA community, in which the data conducted from their natural conversation. And it is descriptive because it described the functions and kinds illocutionary acts used by transsexual people in Malang.

Based on research findings and discussion, assertive act performed in this finding is in complaining act. The directive act is performed ordering and requesting. Commissive act is performed in this finding is offering act. In addition, the expressive act restrict for apologizing act and greeting act. Finally, transsexual people never use the fifth kind of illocutionary act that is declarative, during the observation period of this study.

The writer hoped that the study would be new additional source information for increasing the knowledge of the illocutionary, especially concerning with illocutionary acts used by transsexual people in Malang. Therefore, the writer suggest the further writers to criticize the theory of illocutionary acts which may be not relevant to this area and creatively correlated this study to other cross linguistic disciplines, for example psycholinguistics, neorolinguistics etc.