THE SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE HOST AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE INDONESIA LAWAK KLUB (ILK) PROGRAM ON TRANS7

This study is concerned with the use of speech acts by the host and five participants of Indonesia Lawak Klub (ILK) comedy program on Trans7 in three episodes, namely “Buaya Vs Cicak”, “Vicky Prasetyo” and “BATAK” Banyak Taktik Banyak Akal”. The objectives of the study are to discover the types of speech acts deployed by the host and participants in the ILK comedy program, the most dominant types of speech acts, the way of the host and participants deployed the types of the speech acts and the reason they deployed them as they do. The study was conducted by qualitative content analysis method. The data were taken randomly from the internet and gathered from the host and participants’ utterances in three topics of three different episodes, and then they were transcribed. The transcriptions were analyzed by applying qualitative method. The findings found that all types of speech acts were deployed by both the host and the participants. However, not all participants deployed all types of speech acts such as Komeng, Fitri Tropika, Ronald and Jarwo Kwat. The most dominant types of speech acts deployed by the host is directive speech acts in form of questioning and representative speech acts in form of informing deployed by the participant dominantly. Both the host and participants performed them in four ways, direct, indirect, literal and non-literal. There were some reasons of deploying the speech acts as he is such as the host in running his role in the program to gain as many as information from each participant deployed directive in form of questioning and the participants whose role to respond what the host asked them and inform their party and their analysis in line with the issues debated they deployed representative in form of informing. It was found that there was additional function of this comedy program out of as entertaining and provoking laughter such as provoking thought and insinuating certain part. Therefore, context of speech affects the use of certain types of speech acts very much. It means that everyone (language users) should master a matter of speech acts to understand what speaker meant as well.