SPEECH ACTS OF KARNI ILYAS IN INDONESIA LAWYERS CLUB (ILC) “KPK VS NOVANTO: BERPACU DENGAN WAKTU”

This research deals with the using of speech acts in Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC): KPK vs
Novanto: Berpacu dengan Waktu. The objectives of this research were: (1) to investigate the
types of speech acts used by Karni Ilyas in ILC “KPK vs Novanto: Berpacu dengan Waktu”, (2)
to describe the way of performing speech acts realized by Karni Ilyas, and (3) to explain the
reasons why those types of speech acts are realized by Karni Ilyas. The research applied
descriptive qualitative method. The source of data in this research was taken from Indonesia
Lawyers Club (ILC) “KPK vs Novanto: Berpacu dengan Waktu” video. The instrument used for
collecting the data was the observation by recorded the utterances of Karni from seven parts of
videos. The data were clauses contained of Speech Acts used by Karni. The findings of this study
showed that: 1) There were three types of speech acts, namely locutionary act, illocutinary act
and perlocutionary act that utilized by Karni Ilyas in his utterances when discussion with all the
guests in Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC) “KPK vs Novanto: Berpacu dengan Waktu”. The
dominant types of speech act was illocutionary act and the dominant classification was directive.
2) There were two ways in performing speech act used by Karni, namely direct and indirect
speech. Direct speech was more dominant than indirect speech. 3) There were four reasons why
Karni using speech act, namely to actuate, to entertain, to stimulate, and to inform. The dominant
was to actuate.