Abstract

This study is mainly to describe the illocutionary act type by Searle‟s category of the
conversation Women and woman, women and men, men and men. The objectives of the
study namely, to find out what are the types of illocutionary acts in the conversation. The
researchers use a descriptive qualitative method to classify and analyze the utterances.
After the analyze, the researchers found from the men and men conversation are 8
collaborative, 2 competitive, 4 conflictive, and women and men conversation are 12
collaborative, 3 competitive, 2 conflictive and wemen and women conversation are 9
collaborative , 8 conflictive.

INTRODUCTION

Language is an arbitrary vocal symbol. Language is the role of human life, not only

for the daily life but also for all activities of human life such as research, illumination,

news, or even giving an argument, thinking and feeling (Rohmadi: 2008, 3). While

according to Wibowo language is a system of symbols that are meaningful and articulate

sound (generated by said tool) that are arbitrary and conventional, which is used as a means

of communication by a group of men to give birth to feelings and thoughts. In language,

there are several branches to learn it more detail. Such as morphology, phonology, syntax,

semantic, and sociolinguistic.

The writer used pragmatics to analyze the problems in this research. Pragmatics is

the study of meaning. Speech act is a part of pragmatics. Speech act explain how language

is used to communicate. It means that how people use language within a context and why

they use language in particular ways. While Utterance could be said as main point in

speech acts. Utterance means what is said by any one person before or after another person

begins to speak (Richard et al, 1985:302). It means that when people do the conversation,
there are many utterances. Speech act usually occurs in conversation. It is very useful in

conversation. That’s why it is so good in analysis.

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12 11
10
10
8
8
6
6
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2 1 1 1 1 1
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collaborative competitive conflictive convivial