Locutionary And Illocutionary Acts Of Daily Transactional Communication Between

Abstract

This study deals with locutionary and illocutionary acts in the Traditional Market. It was aimed to analyze the types of locutionary and types of illocutionary act used by buyers and sellers. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The subject of data was daily transactional communication in Pulo Brayan’s Traditional Market. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis technique, by describing the types of locutionary and illocutionary acts. The result showed that there were 3 concepts of locutionary act used by buyers and sellers namely: statement form it consist of 11 findings, question form there were 15 findings, and for imperative 4 findings. Meanwhile, the types of illocutionary namely: representative 13 findings, directives 11 findings, commissive 5 findings and expressive 5 findings, declarative not found in this research. It can be concluded that question form was dominantly used in locutionary and representative was dominantly used in illocutionary by buyers and sellers in Traditional Market.