THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN ACEHNESE WOMEN’S GOSSIP

The study dealt with the illocutionary act realized in Acehnese women’s in gossip.
The objectives of the research were: 1) to investigate the types of the illocutionary
acts realized in Acehnese women’s gossip, 2) to describe the ways of performing
the illocuttionary acts realized in Acehnese women’s gossip, 3) to explain the
reasons of the illocutionary act realized in Acehnese women’s gossip. The study
was a single case study research design. The data were the sentences and clauses
that uttered by Acehnese women in gossip. The data were taken from four
Acehnese womens who did gossip at Bukit Rata Village in Kejuruan Muda
Subdistrict of Aceh Tamiang Regency. The results of this study showed that, 1)
there were four types of illocutionary acts realized by Acehnese women in gossip,
there were assertive, directive, expressive and declarative and the mostly realized
was assertive, 2) there were two ways of performing the illocutionary acts in
Acehnese womens gossip namely direct and indirect illocutionary acts and the
dominant realized was direct, 3) the were four reasons of realizing the
illocutionary acts in Acehnese womens gossip namely knowledge, friendship,
influence and entertainment and the dominant realized was knowledge.