SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE JUDGE AND THE DEFENDANT AT THE VERDICT DELIVERY OF COURTROOM ISSUED IN YOUTUBE

This descriptive qualitative research deals with the speech act used at the Verdict
delivery in the courtroom issued in YouTube. The objectives of the study are to
find out the types of speech acts used by the judge and defendant, to describe the
speech acts realized in the expressions, and to explain the reasons why the speech
acts are used as they are. The data were downloaded from a YouTube channel that
there are ten trials between judge and defendant which were carried out alternately
ten times. The utterances are written in the transcription. the approach used in
this research was based on Searle's theory (2000). Searle identified five types of
speech acts. There are representative, directive, commisive, expressive, and
declarative. The finding showed that there are four types of speech acts used by
the judge and the defendant but commisive is not found in the data. The dominant
used by the judge during the court session is directive. There are five functions of
the directive namely: Instructing, Questioning, Warning, Advising, and
Requesting. The dominant speech act used by the defendant is representative.
There are six functions of representative namely: Reporting, Conveying,
Informing, and Stating a fact, Describing, and Asserting. There are two reasons to
perform the speech acts in the courtroom. They are direct-literal and direct-non
literal.