Illocutionary Act in ABC new Interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry: A Pragmatic Study

Abstract

This research discusses about the form of ilocution act of speech in ABC news interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. This research is amied to describe the form of ilocution act of speech in ABC new interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry regarding their engagement moment. The data of this research is the utterance between the interviewer, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in ABC news interview. This research uses descriptive-qualitative research because this research contains the performed utterances in ABC news interview. The instrument used in this research is the own researcher whose armed with sense of pragmatic study, that is the speech act. In the result of this research, the directive of begging, requesting, inquiring and offering, the commissive of promising, the expressive of thanking, greeting and praising, the declarative of naming and deciding, The representative of asserting and refusing were found in the data. The representative of asserting was frequently used in the data, while the commissive of promising was the least one.

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“…One of the phenomena of expressive acts occurs in an interview of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. This instance is taken from the research conducted by Nasution et al (2019).…”