The Analysis of Speech Acts in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”

Andika, Luki (2020) The Analysis of Speech Acts in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Kediri.

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Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to describe the types of illocutionary acts used in Animal Farm. The researcher also tried to describe the factors which affect the occurrence of each speech act types. The researcher conducted the analysis using Animal Farm Novel original by George Orwell and Indonesian translation by Prof. Bakri Soemanto which was published by Bentang Pustaka Publisher. The researcher interested to conduct this research because the intention of the Novel was related to the history of Russian government. The researcher conducted descriptive qualitative in this study. It used descriptive qualitative because it attempted to describe the linguistics phenomena found in the novel. In this analysis, the researchers focused more on the specific types of Illocutionary Act in the Animal Farm novel by George Orwell. Data sources were obtained from Novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The theory used by the writer to find the data were Austin‟s Theory, Searle‟s Theory, Habermas‟s Theory, and Situational Context‟s Theory. This study obtained 46 data of Speech acts, 18 of them were directives, 13 were declaratives, 11 were representatives, and finally, 4 were commissions. The represented data show that there are only four speech act types occurred in this analysis; declarations, directives, representatives, and commisives. Meanwhile, expressive did not occur because there were no utterance which stating pleasure, pain, likes, dislikes, joy or sorrow. In addition, it is also found out that the speech act types most frequently occurred was directive 40%, followed by declarative 30%, and representative 20%, and commissive 10%. Hence, it can be concluded that the novel tried to describe or represent about the usage or intention of speech to alter someone‟s belief or thought, which in this case is the animals, in order to reach their goal.

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi, Tesis, Disertasi) (Undergraduate (S1))
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (Ilmu Bahasa, Komunikasi dan Budaya) > 2004 Linguistics (Ilmu Bahasa) > 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Divisions:	Fakultas Tarbiyah > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Muh Hamim
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2024 04:09
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2024 04:09
URI:	https://etheses.iainkediri.ac.id:80/id/eprint/12304

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