SPEECH ACT USED IN THE NOVEL PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS : THE LIGHTNING THIEF

Abstract

This research discusses speech act in the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians : The Lightning Thief. The objectives of the research are to categorize type of speech act used in the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians : The Lightning Thief, analyze the realization of speech act in the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians:The Lighting Thief, and explain the reasons for speech act in the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians:The Lightning Thief. The research on this thesis was carried out using description qualitative. The data were taken from the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians : The Lightning Thief. There are 242 data speech act that found in novel Percy Jackson and The Olympians:The Lightning Thief. The data were analyzed and classified into five types of speech acts,namely representative/assertive, directive, commisive, expressive and declarative. There are representative/assertive 102 (42.1%), directive 120 (49.6%) , comissive 5 (2.1%), expressive 14 (5.8%), and declarative 1 (0.4%). The realization of speech act using words, caluses, and sentences. Consists of words 10 (4.1%), pharses 28 (11.6%), clause 16 (6.6%), and sentences 188 (77.7%). The reason for the types of speech act was relized in three ways, namely direct, indirect, and metaphor. There are direct 234 (96.7%), indirect 8 (3.3%), and no data found for metaphor. The types of speech act has been relized in the novel Percy Jackson and The Olympian: The Lighting thief because this research will produce a deep understanding of the speech act with pragmatics studies in the data used in this study