This study aimed at investigating and explaining how the expressive speech acts functioned
and differed in use among the candidates. A case study research design was employed. The …

The research aimed to determine the sorts and most prevalent illocutionary acts used by the
characters in the Brave animated movie. The illocutionary act was defined as the purpose for …

An apology is an act of speech used by people to repair a relationship. Such events can
occur in the surrounding environment such as at school, in the family, at work, and others …

According to a turn of the century, corpora are established as a modern platform of
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) empirical researches (Baker et al, 2008 …

The directive forms of illocutionary act is a form of speech act that aims to influence the
speech partner to take certain actions. This research aims to analyze the directive forms of …