An Analysis of Illocutionary Act on Song Lyrics Of Bruno Mars’s Doo - Woops & Hooligans Album

Abstract

The study discussed about the use of Illocutionary Act to determine the lyric of the song‘s meaning. The objectives of this study were to : (1) To describethe types of illocutionary speech acts are contained on song lyrics Doo - Woops & Hooligans Album. And (2) To find out the functions of the illocutionary act found in the song lyrics Doo - Woops & Hooligans Album. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The source of the data was obtained from Bruno Mars‘s Doo - Woops & Hooligans Album. The data was taken the lyrics of 10 songs from Bruno Mars‘s Doo - Woops & Hooligans Album to find the types and functions of Illocutionary Act . The technique in analyzing the data was using the theory of Miles & Huberman (2019), that is data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing and verfication. There were then found out the song lyrics of Doo-Wops & Hooligans Album by Bruno Mars use most of representative illocutionary acts and the song lyrics of Doo - Wops & Hooligans Album by Bruno Mars use most of collaborative illocutionary acts‘s function.