Abstract:
This study deals with the structural argument and pragmatic analysis on Dua Sisi
Talk Show. The objectives of the study were to analyze the argument structures of
the speakers on Dua Sisi Talk Show, to investigate the speakers’ ways in delivering
arguments and to find out the dominant types of speech act used by the speakers on
Dua Sisi Talk Show. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method to analyze
the data. The data were the utterances presented by the speakers on Dua Sisi Talk
Show. The technique of data analyzing was from the data reduction, data display,
and conclusion drawing. The research finding showed that there were 32 arguments
found in this research which consist of 13 standard arguments and 19 non-standard
arguments. Furthermore, there were 22 arguments categorized as locutionary acts, 4
arguments categorized as illocutionary acts, and 6 arguments categorized as
perlocutionary acts based on Austin’s theory. Locutionary act was the dominant type
of speech acts found on Dua Sisi Talk Show.
