Analysis of Illocutionary Act in The Short Story “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway

Abstract

This thesis entitled 'An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in The Short Story “The Killers " By Ernest Hemingway The problem of this study are: (1) What are types of illocutionary acts found in the short story 'The Killers ’ by Ernest Hemingway? (2) What is the dominant type of illocutionary act found in the short stoty ‘Ute Killers'by Ernest Hemingway? This study aims to identify and describe the types of illocutionary acts in the short stoty The Killers by Ernest Hemingway, to find out the dominant type of illocutionary acts in the short stoty The Killers by Ernest Hemingway. Ute research design used was descriptive qualitative method. The data resource of this study is The Killers short stoty by Ernest Hemingway collected by using observation technique. The data were analyzed by using identify ing and describing technique the data were identified, described, analyzed and interpreted. The data result shows that:(l) there are three types of illocutionary act identified, that is representative, directives, and expressive act. (2) the most dominant types of illocutionary is directives illocutionary acts, 47% of percentage. It indicates that the chat octets of the short stoty use directives because some of them want the other character to do something.