A STUDY OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT USED BY THE FOLLOWERS IN CNN INTERNATIONAL TWITTER

Abstract

In life, people use language to communicate and interact each other. Speech acts are the nature of speech or utterances expressed by people (Yule, 1996: 47) [1]. In this research, the researcher studies about directive speech act used by the followers of CNN international twitter. According to Searle (1976) [2] directives are those kinds of speech act to get the hearer do something. On twitter, CNN international is one of many news account that provide viral information, so a lot of people are interested in giving their opinions and express their emotions by giving their own perception through comments in many different ways. This gives the researcher inspiration to analyze the types of directives speech act and the strategy used by the followers to give the responses towards the tweets in the CNN international twitter, in terms of speech acts of directive. In this study, the researcher found there are several types of speech acts, they are: representatives, expressive, directive and commissive. And, this study focus on directive speech act as the mostly conveyed on the CNN international twitter. Those are advising, requesting, suggesting, commanding, asking, and questioning directive speech acts.There are a number of researches done about the speech acts. Some of them are Yanti (2015)[3], she did a research on speech act directive and expressive found in Jokowi’s speech. Then, Tara, Daulay, and Saragi (2017)[4] that discussed about Illocutionary acts in Indonesia’s meme comics at social media and its advantages as reading materials for senior high school. The previous topic of the research motivate the researcher to study directive speech acts in the International CNN twitter, how the followers used the directive speech acts as a response to the CNN Tweets. And,what types of directive speech acts dominantly used.