AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT OF PRAISING ON THE TV PROGRAM AMERICA’S GOT TALENT

Abstract

The study aims at describing the speech act of praising on the TV program America’s Got Talent with an approach of pragmatic perspective. Here, the writer analyzed the use of speech acts delivered by the Juries in the form of direct speech act of praising, indirect speech act of praising, communication strategy that focus on the positive politeness, the way how the Juries exppressed the praising words. Some theories used in this analysisare the conceps stated by Searle (1976), Brown & Lavinson (1987), and Crabtree (1991). The study focuses on direct and indirect speech acts in expressing the speech act of praising in terms of using positive politeness. From the analysis, the Juries tend to express the speech act of praising literally and non literal in terms of metaphor. In addition, the writer found the communication strategies used by the juries to express the admiration by using the positive politeness, for example exaggerate, notice, and symphaty.
Keywords: speech act of praising, direct, indirect, positive politeness strategies, context