Tindakan Meminta Dalam Novel Oliver Twist Karya Charles Dickens : Suatu Analisis Pragmatik

Abstract

This research entitled “Tindakan Meminta dalam Novel Oliver Twist Karya Charles Dickens: Suatu Analisis Pragmatik” is focused on the one kinds of illocutionary act that is acts of requesting. The purpose of this research, is to identify, classify, analyze, and describe the aspect of act of requesting in the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, and is done by using descriptive method. In collecting data, the writer concentrated on the utterances which contain the act of requesting produced by the characters in novel. The collected data are analyzed based on Austin's theory. The result shows that there are nine types of acts of requesting in the novel Oliver Twist, they are: ask, beg, command, demand, direct, inquire, order, pray, and request. It is expected that this research will help the students and the other readers in learning the pragmatics aspects, especially about illocutionary act