ILLOCUTIONARY ACT USED IN SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS ANIMATED CARTOON VIDEO: SPONGEBOB IS A KARATE MASTER EPISODE

Abstract

The objectives of this study is to analyze the types of illocutionary acts used in SpongeBob Squarepants animated cartoon: SpongeBob is a Karate Master Episode. The writer used descriptive qualitative method. The theory of Searle (1979) was used in this study to analyze and find out the kinds of illocutionary act. There are five types of illocutionary act according to Searle (1979), such as: declarative, assertives, expressive, directives, and commisives. There are several steps to collect the data, they are find out the cartoon video and downloading it. In addition, the writer watched and listened the utterances in cartoon video. While watching the cartoon video, the writer attempted to find utterances included and related to speech act classification. After that, the writer made note-taking and analyzed the meaning of the utterance. Then, the writer categorized the data according to speech act types. The result of this study showed that expressive speech act has the highest frequency of occurrence expressive with consist of 11 utterances (34.43%). After that followed by directives consisting of 10 utterances (28.57%), representative consisting of 7 utterances (20%), declaration consisting of 4 utterances (11.43%), and last one is commissive consisting of 3 utterances (8.57%). Keywords: illocutionary act, cartoon video, declarative, representative, expressive, directives, commisives