EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS IN VIDEO REACTION OF K-POP MV

Abstract

This study aims to find out types of expressive speech acts from the viewers’ reaction of KPop Music Video on Alphiandi and Jordan Orme's YouTube channels. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. Meanwhile, in collecting the data, the researchers downloaded K-Pop Music Video from YouTube channel entitled “LOCO” purposively. Furthermore, in analysing the data the researchers employ a framework purposed by Searle (1976). According to Searle, there are six types of speech acts, expressive of thanking, expressive of congratulating, expressive of apologizing, expressive of wishing, expressive of attitude, and expressive of greeting. The results of this study show that there are six kinds of expressive speech act produced as follow: expressive of praising, expressive of wishing, expressive of appreciation, expressive of greeting, expressive of thanking, and expressive of apologizing. The results of this study show that the most dominant expressive use is expressive of praising. Expressive of praising is the most common because viewers’ want to convey a sense of awe to other viewers. For viewers, this music video is a work of music, videography, and editing that deserves praise and appreciation from everyone who watches it. Then another reason is because the utterance of praise from the viewers has the aim of inviting the subscribers to watch the music video because it is an interesting video to watch