Directive illocutionary acts by prime minister David Cameron in Scotland Referendum

ABSTRACT

In attempting to express something in mind, people do not only produce utterances containing grammatical stuctures and words but also they perform action. We can use words to do different things such as asserting, stating, suggesting, promising, warning, expecting and et cetera. The utterances’ meanings do not only depend on literal meaning of one’s word, however what one intends to do with them, and the institutional and social setting in which the linguistic activity occurs. This a concern of Speech Acts.

Meaning of an utterance needs comprehension from the hearer. It must be done by the hearer because an utterance does not just have a real word meaning but also intended meaning. This is called Illocutionary Acts.

This study focuses on Directive Illocutionary Acts analysis which is applied in speech by Prime Minister David Cameron in Scotland Referendum. This study employs Daniel vanderveken to analyze the types of Directive Illocutionary Acts and how those Directive Illocutionary acts are employed in David Cameron’s speech.
The descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the data in this study. The data are presented drescriptively because this study describes and explains Illocutionary Acts used by David Cameron in his speech. It describes the types and how those Directive Illocutionary Acts are found in David Cameron’s speech.

The findings show that there are seven types of Directive Illocutionary Acts used in David Cameron’s speech. Those types are: Asking, begging, requesting, commanding, suggesting, adjuring, and forbidding.In addition, this study also finds the way of performing Directive Illocutionary Acts used by Davis Cameron’s speech. Direct Directive Illocutionary Acts and Indirect Directive Illocutionary Acts are used in his utterance however the most dominant used by David Cameronis Direct Directive Illocutionary Acts.
It is hoped that this study will be useful to the readers to enrich their knowledge about analyzing Directive Illocutionary Acts in kind of speech that contributes important information for the next researcher who is interested in doing the same kind of study. However it is suggested for further researcher use another theory of Directive Illocutionary acts or other differrent genres of speech.