SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF TYRION LANNISTER ON GAME OF THRONES HBO TV SERIES

DIANA RANTAU, DIANA RANTAU (2018) SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF TYRION LANNISTER ON GAME OF THRONES HBO TV SERIES. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

Language by means of communication has become the primary things to build in the society life. To achieve the goals, speakers are not only saying something but also performing action through their utterances called speech act. Speech acts are not only occurred in real life situation, but also happened in the TV series as well. This research concerns with speech act produced by the character of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones TV series. The objectives of the study are to find out (1) the kind of speech act used by Tyrion Lannister, and (2) the type of illocutionary act mostly performed by Tyrion Lannister. The objective of the research is the written form of Tyrion Lannister’s utterances which has Transcript. Austin’s theory of speech act and Searle’s extended illocutionary classification is employed in this study, descriptive qualitative method is employed as well. There are 79 utterances analyzed, the result shows that Tyrion Lannister performed the three types of speech act; Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act, and Perlocutionary act. The result also showed that Tyrion Lannister performed four from five types of Illocutionary act; Representatives, expressives, directives, and commissives. Tyrion Lannister is dominantly performed representatives type of illocutionary act which has the highest presentation, 62.00%.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Keywords: Speech Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Pragmatics, TV Series
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: M Jafar Jafar
Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2018 01:31
Last Modified: 13 Jul 2018 01:31
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/5471

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