SPEECH ACTS IN COMMUNICATIVE EVENTS IN SCHOOL CONTEXTS

This research deals with Speech acts in communicative events in school contexts. The objective of the research were to know how speech acts realized linguistically in communicative events in school contexts. This research conducted qualitative method.The data collected is analyzed by applying interactive model of Miles and Huberman. The location of this research is in SMP Tunas Harapan Mandiri Rantauprapat.Speech acts classify into assertive, directive, commisives, expressive and declarative. The utterances occurred during the teacher’s meeting were recorded and transcribed, then the speakers were interviewed to find the answers of the research problems. By uttering speech acts the speaker has to decide what forms of speech acts might be taken. In the line with this, speaker can perform direct and indirect speech acts in the form of declarative, interrogative and imperative. They used direct speech acts, they speak straight to the point and clearly in order to make the listeners understand the intended meaning of the speakers whereas they used indirect speech acts in connection with context of time, participants and politeness because indirect speech acts are generally associated with greater context of time, participants and politeness than direct speech acts.