THE USE OF SPEECH ACTS IN A CHILD WITH A SPEECH DELAY IN THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL AUTISM FAMILY
Abstract
The process of developing language in children is simultaneous with the development of linguistics aspects. It does the same to children with a speech delay that is difficult to use words form to communicate with others at the expected age. These children can also communicate with another person to express their intentions. This research is aimed at analyzing the speech act elements and the functions of speech act uttered by Alistair, a family member, in the YouTube channel Autism Family. The descriptive-qualitative method was used to analyze the data. Based on Yule's classification of speech acts, the results of the analysis reveal that there are four types of speech acts expressed by Alistair, namely representative (49%), expressive (25%), directive (22%), and commissive (4%). This finding suggests that a child with a speech delay as demonstrated by Alistair has the capacity to express various pragmatic meanings, particularly in speech acts. He can perform actions through his utterances and does not think that language is an obstacle to communicate with others despite several difficulties.References
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