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-nonliteral.