The Illocutionary Acts Found in English Webtoon Entitled Seasons of Blossom: Hamin’s Flower

Abstract

The title of this research is “The Illocutionary Acts Found in English Webtoon Entitled Seasons of Blossom: Hamin’s Flower”. This research is aimed to describe the types, functions and dominant type of illocutionary acts based on Yule’s theory. Qualitative descriptive approached was applied in this research. The data source of this research was an e-comic on English Webtoon entitled Seasons of Blossom: Hamin’s Flower and the data were collected from the character’s utterances in dialogues. There were also two research instruments, i.e. handphone to access the application and a notebook to write the utterances in dialogues. The methods in collecting the data consist of downloading the application, reading the comic, determining the utterances, then classifying and taking a note to the dialogues based on the types of illocutionary acts, also identifying the functions of each type. The research results were described descriptively and presented using formal and informal methods. The results of the research showed the five types of illocutionary acts found in the Webtoon: declaration type which aims to declare something that change the world, representative type which aims to represent the speaker’s belief, expressive type which aims to express the psychological statements, directive type which aims to instruct the listener, and commissive type which aims to show the speaker’s commitment. Furthermore, the dominant type found in the Webtoon is directive types which consist of suggestions, requests, commands, orders, and questions.