SPEECH ACTS IN KARONESE’S CULTURE “CABUR BULUNG” PARTY

Abstract

This research explores the types of speech acts and the dominant type used by the participants in Karonese’ s culture “cabur Bulung” party. Speech acts are the acts of communication. They show the response by giving action of what it is said. The research method includes obervating the party as well as recording the utterances of the participants. Data were the transcription of the utterances of the participants. The analysis is based on Brinton’s speech acts. The results reveal that from the six types of speech acts proposed by the theories, participants in this study used only four types of speech acts in karonese wedding party “Cabur Bulung”. The types are directive act, commisive act, representative act and expressive act. From the four types of those speech acts, the dominan type used by speaker is directive act.