Commissive Speech Acts On Youtube Video Entitled The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Nurul, Wahida Rinjani (2023) Commissive Speech Acts On Youtube Video Entitled The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This study discusses the types of comissive speech acts in the utterances spoken by the characters on the YouTube video entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This study is aims to find out the types of commissive speech acts spoken by the characters through a YouTube video entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In conducting this research, the writer uses a qualitative approach. Based on the way qualitative approach in collecting the data, the writer makes an observation by watching YouTube video repeatedly and carefully to collect the data. The data are taken from the utterances spoken by the characters on the YouTube video entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that contain the types of commissive speech acts. The data were analyzed with the theory of types of commissive speech acts by Searle (1979) and the theory of context by Leech (1983). Based on this research, there are 34 commissive speech acts data spoken by the characters on the YouTube video. From the 34 data, the writer found 4 types of commissive speech acts used by all the characters. They are promise containing 18 data, threat containing 3 data, refusal containing 5 data, and warning containing 8 data. The most dominant type of commissive speech act is promise. Most of the characters use this type of promise because they often act in the future by committing the hearer. They try to convince the hearer to believe the speaker that they will make the commitment in the future.

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