ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN JAY SHETTY PODCAST YOUTUBE

This research identifies the types of speech acts used in Jay Shetty's YouTube
Podcast with the theme Building Confidence And Overcoming Fears through
content analysis, based on Weigand's taxonomy (2010), which contains four
categories of speech acts, including declarative, exploratory, directive, and
representative. This taxonomy explains the actions and reactions of the two
communication actors. This research aims to explain the dominant types of speech
acts that are most widely used in podcasts and how speech acts are displayed in
podcasts. Using qualitative descriptive methods, researchers describe and interpret
the speech acts used in podcasts. The findings revealed three speech acts used in
the three video podcast contents. Among the speech act processes are 32
utterances for declarative speech acts, 31 for exploratory speech acts, and 12 for
representative speech acts. The research concluded that the exploratory speech act
type was the dominant or most frequently appearing type of speech act on Jay
Shetty's YouTube Podcast from the videos of his three podcasts with Kendall
Jenner, Trevor Noah, and Jerrod Carmichael. For the type of directive speech act
in these three podcast titles, there are no action-reaction utterances from the two
communicators, which means that their speech is included in the directive speech
act.