Abstract :
ABSTRACT
Putri, Erika Devia. 2019. The Speech Acts Used In English Debate By The
Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 2 Bojonegoro in The Academic Year of
2018/2019 Skripsi. English Education Department, Faculty of Language and Art
Education, IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro. Advisor I: Dr. M. Ali Ghufron, M.Pd,
Advisor 2: Yuniarta Ita Purnama, M.Pd.
This study was focused at finding out 1) the speech acts used, 2) the styles of
politeness used in handling English debate. It was a qualitative research, and the
subjects of the study were the eleventh grade students of SMAN 2 in academic
year 2018/2019. The research data were collected through simulated English
debate. The result showed that the speech acts that were used the most by the
debaters were assertive speech acts 45%, followed by directive 30%, and
expressive 11%. The speech acts were used frequently by the debaters for
handling English debate were assertive speech acts, such as welcoming,
apologizing, and thanking. Those kinds of forces were important for the debaters
to be uttered to the other debaters to show their pleasures, regrets, and respects.
Then, it was followed by assertive speech acts that were used for suggesting,
informing and also asking. Directive was used for recommending and asking.
There were no any commissives and declarative speech act used by the debaters.
Asking can be both, assertive or directive in illocutionary and open-interrogative
in locutionary. The politeness styles showed that 99% speech acts were
categorized as polite and there were 1% speech acts were categorized as less
polite/impolite. The maxims that the debaters used were tact and agreement.
Keywords: Speech acts, style of politeness, debate, locutionary act, illocutionary
act, perlocutionary act