contoh analisis locutionary, illocutionary dan perlocutionary act
An analysis of Speech act: J.L. Austin’s theory of
performative act
Oleh: Fatihurrahman
J.L.
Austin, in his theory of performative acts, he tries to explain that an
utterence which uttered by a speaker has a meningfull message, in which
addressed to the hearer and or listener to do wtat is uttered. On the other
hands, every single word comes out by human lips carries a meaning. It means,
no word has no meaning. In his theory, Austin also emphasize that "to say something may be to do
something". By emphasizing that, then he issues performative acts which is
parted into three types: locutionary act is the act of saying something and/ or what is said;
illocutionaryact is the act performed in
saying something; The perlocutionary act
is the act performed by, or as a
consequence of, saying something.
To make best understanding about those three
types of performative acts, then I do analyzing two short conversations between
two persons who are in very closed relationship, yet their names will not be
stated as what it is! Thus, they are initialized as A and B. The following conversation
are:
Conversation
1
A: whatch out! There is a car.
B: Well, thank you.
A’s
utterence is a warning to B to be more carefully in crossing the road, because
there is a car which quicken in speedily. What A says is what we call as locutionary act. Where
the locutionary act performed by A is meaning by “Watch” and refering by “B” on his act. B’s respose will indicate whether
B understad or not about what is the
intended meaning of A by saying so. On one hand, the locutionary will seem to
succed by looking at the B’s responce. By
responding “well, thank you” means
that B understands about what is spoken by A. The intended message is
well-recognized by B is called as illocutionary act. Then, the result of
understanding an utterence utterd by A will be done by B. It is known as
perlucotionary act.
Conversation
2
A: Can you come over to my parent’s
bith day party tonight?
B: I must vinish
my homework.
We can do so by noting that under the right
conditions, one can urge just by saying, “Can
you come over to my parent’s bith day party tonoght?”, while the adreessee
respond by saying, “ I must vinish my
homework”. What we can analyse, the addressee replies by using indirect
speech act. The Addressee’s utterance may indicate that: “the homework must be assembled tomorrow” and/or “he/she is too busy to join the party”. The
example above refers to the Indirect speech act. Form that example I
myself also derived into three kinds of
speech acts, the first is Lucotionary, means that the sentence “Can you come over to my parent’s bith day
party tonight?” contain of what is said by the speaker and well-undestood
by the addressee. The lucotionary act has a literal meaning whether the
utterance will be perfomed or not, it is not important. The second,
Illucotinary act, means that the utterance above “I must vinish my homework” is not just informing to the speaker
that he/she has homework to be done. Yet, the utterance will have an impact
toward the speaker’s performance. It is known as perlucotionary act.
To sum up, a
speaker not merely produces an utterance but she/he also tries to communicate
something by using an utterance. On the other hand, the speaker wants the
hearer to respond what is said by him or her. Thus, in every single word and/or
an utterence spoken by speaker is always
has a meaning and the speaker supposes the hearer to do what is said. Because
what is said is not merely what it is. it is what J.L. Austin meant in his
theory of performative acts.
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