Abstract:This research aims to explore Directive Speech Acts in the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This research used a descriptive qualitative method by employing literary pragmatics analysis. The object of this research was the utterances of the main characters in the novel's dialogue. The data were collected by reading the text closely, observing the dialogue in the text, note taking and highlighting the directive speech acts, coding and classifying the types of directive speech acts, then an… Show more
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