SPEECH ACT: BREAKING PROMISES ANALYSIS IN THE COMEDY TRANSCRIPTION FAMILY 2.0

Abstract

This paper proposes interpersonal conversations or speech act among the member of family. The Family 2.0 represents some breaking promises among the Husband, Son, First husband (Dog), Daughter and Wife in a comedy framework dialogues analysis. It allows for yelling, persuading, greeting, commanding, asking, offering, promising, offering, and mocking among the family members. It also allows for giving responses in exchanging arguments, by breaking the promises The Family 2.0 gives a sense of humor throughout the story. As a results of the Husband bring about his responsibilities as a consequences of his promises to other members of The Family 2.0. The analysis result is shown that the playwright deliberately conveying about the attitudes and personality of the each characters. The most type of speech act is Expressive acts (40%), followed by Directive acts (33, 33%), Commissive acts (20%), Assertive act (3, 33%) and the last Declarative act (3, 33%).

Keyword: Speech Act, Promise, Comedy, and The Family 2.0