Illocutionary Acts on @trustorchestra Instagram Account

Wati Purnama Sari, Aulia Haris Firstiyanti

Abstract


This research investigated illocutionary acts emerged on @trustorchestra Instagram account. By using Searle’s theory, the important functions of illocutionary acts of the speaker to the hearer in conveying the message in communication were being highlighted and discussed. The qualitative research method was applied to analyze the illocutionary acts on @trustorchestra Instagram account, an account for group of Indonesian who play various musical instrument together. The data for this research were the Instagram captions of @trustorchestra account in 2024. This research could accommodate and give insightful knowledge related to the understanding of the speaker’s intentions. The result demonstrated that the dominant illocutionary acts used were Assertive. It appeared that the speaker utilized the illocutionary acts on Instagram captions to warn and provide information to the Instagram users about the event they held.

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Illocutionary Acts; Instagram; @trustorchestra

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v47.1.6642

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