Expressive Speech Act in Cerita Cintaku Youtube Video (Stand Up Comedy By Raditya Dika)

Abstract

This study focuses on the form of expressive speech acts in Cerita Cintaku Youtube Video (Stand Up Comedy by Raditya Dika). This study is a qualitative descriptive content analysis study using a pragmatics. The data description in this study is in the form of expressive speech acts in 3 videos from Cerita Cintaku Youtube Video (Stand Up Comedy by Raditya Dika). This study found eleven types of expressive speech acts: praising, thanking, congratulating, feeling annoyed, criticizing, feeling surprised, mocking, feeling worried, satire, apologizing, and feeling confused. Many expressive speech acts were shown in the form of conversations or dialogues between the judges and participants, as well as the responses of the judges in respond to the standup comedy performances of the participants. This study did not find any speech acts expressing sympathy, support, and expressing condolences. The most widely used in Cerita Cintaku Youtube Video (Stand Up Comedy by Raditya Dika) speech acts were the expressive speech acts of “praising” and “feeling annoyed”.