A Pragmatic Analysis of Locutionary Acts in Zakir Naik’s Statement

Abstract

This research deal with of pragmatic analysis of locutionary acts in Zakir Naik’s statement. The objectives of the research was to find out locutionary acts and type locutionary acts in Zakir Naik’s statement. The data in this research were taken from youtube the title is “women challanging Zakir Naik finally convert to Islam”. There are 13 locutionary and type of locutionary acts taken as the data. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyzed the data. In doing this research library research was applied in analyzing the data. From the data, it were obtained that 13 locutionary acts and type locutinary acts, namely 5 data belong to phonetic act, 6 data belong to phatic act, 2 data belong to rhetic act