Speech Acts in Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC) Talk Show Program

This study is concerned with the use of speech acts in Indonesia Lawyers Club
Talk Show Program. The objectives of this descriptive qualitative study were to
discover: (1) the types of speech acts, (2) the process of speech acts, and (3) the
reasons of using speech acts in Indonesia Lawyers Club Talk Show Program. The
data were obtained from the downloaded episodes and then were transcribed. The
data were the host and guests’ utterances in ILC Talk Show Program from the
topics of Penyakit Menahun Namanya Pungli, and Tukang Ojek Online
Simalakama Pemerintah. The data were identified, analyzed and categorized
based on Searle’s (1979), Austin’s (1962) and Grundy’s (2000) theory. The
findings of the study showed that: 1) There were 4 types of speech acts found in
Indonesia Lawyers Club Talk Show Program namely a) representatives, b)
directive, c) commissive, and d) expressive; 2) The processes of speech acts
conducted by the host and the guest, namely a) direct, b) indirect, c) literal, and d)
non literal form; and 3) There were some reasons of the use of speech acts used by
both the host and the guest of Indonesia Lawyers Club talk show program in the
ways they are. As the host, Karni Ilyas had an authority to question the guests
about their point of view related to the discussed issue. Therefore the type of
speech act used by the host in that talk show was directive, in the form of
questioning and commanding. On the other hand, the guest performed dominantly
representative speech acts in form of informing, reporting, conveying, affirming
and denying. It is because the guests had obligation to answer no matter what the
questions of the host.