An Analysis of The Speech Act Used in Justin Bieber’s Tweet

Speech act concerns withythe speaker’s communicativeyintention in producing anutterance and it isydefined by the purpose for which theyspeakers use theylanguage. Speechact can be found in many kinds of communication. One of them is in social media such astwitter. is a free social mediaynetworking microblogging service that allowsregistered members to broadcastyshort posts calledytweets. members can broadcasttweets and follow other user’s tweet by using multiple platformsyand devices.Previously, a number of researches have been done by experts and linguist, forexample Nemer (2016), he analyzed about speechyacts in the Tweets of famous people. Thestudy show the celebrities see the as an online venue where theyycan communicatewith various people and various language style. This study also show that celebrities tendtoycommunicate via different kinds of speech acts when directing theirymessages. And,Yanti (2016) analyzed languageystyle in the speech act of request from the students andtheyfunctions. Yanti found that social factors and contexts influenced the students styledepending on contextsyand functions where the conversation takes place. From the study ofthe speech acts, the writer is interested in analyzing the speechyacts in this case the speechacts in the JustinyBieber's twitter.This study used pragmatics-discourse analysis approaches. Pragmatics deals with thecontexts that influence the meaning of utterances which cannot be accounted for bystraightforward reference to the truth conditions ofythe sentences uttered. There are somecontexts influence the speech acts. According to Mey (2001) “contextyis more than justreference. Context isyabout standing what things are for; it is also whatygives our utterancestheir true pragmatic meaning and allows them to counted as true pragmatic acts”. Theparticularyspeech functions areyexpressed in a variety of contexts, identifying the range oflinguistic forms they take, for example a poem, slogans, and notices (Holmes, p. 276-277).According to Holmes (2013, p.275) there are a number way of categorizing the functions ofspeech. Theyfunctions of speech is notyonly found in speaking (oral) but also in written text(novel, short story, and so on). In this researchythe writer apply theyfunction of speech act inJustin Bieber’sytweet. The writer used speech act theory stated by Searle (1976), they are (1)Representative, (2)yDirective, (3) Commissive, (4) Expressive, (5) Declaration.As a result, the writer found three typesyspeech act used in Bieber’s tweet,there are Representatives, Directives, andyExpressive. Each of these typesyfollowed by somesub-types, for example: informing,ypredicting, and claiming under the Representative speechacts; asking, request refers to the classification of yDirective speech acts; thanking, praising,and congratulatingyare part of the Expressive Speech Act. Furthermore, theywriter found sixfunctions of the speech acts used. The functions used refers to Holmes theory (2013). Holmesstates there areysix functions to be considered in social interaction, they are expressivefunction, it refers to the Justin’s feeling towards social phenomena that happened in thesociety, directive function as asking people to do action, yreferential function, metalinguisticfunction, poetic function, and phatic function. Expressives function utterances expressfeelings of speaker’s, Directives function to make someone to do something,Referentialyfunction to get information, Metalinguistic function give language of comment,Poetic function focus on the language of aesthetic features, Phaticfunctionyexpressysolidarity and empathy with others.This research used qualitative methods while analyzing the data, the researcherdescribes the data as what it is by using the language. Qualitative research can also beintended as a type of research that the finding is not obtained through statistics or any othermatter (Strauss & Corbin, 2003). In this research, the data were taken 50 from the JustinBieber submit January 2018-January 2020 tweets on his where every yearJustin Bieber doesn't write much on his twitter page like in 2018 Bieber only wrote 18tweets, 2019 just 25 tweets, and the rest in 2020. The writer takes 50 data in 3 years at a time.The writer use the observation method in this research. The observation method is observingthe data. In this research observe Bieber's Tweets on the internet. The first the writersearches the data on the internet. The second the writer captures the data and chooses inJustin Bieber's Tweets which is related to the title. The last one, the writer of excellence andinterpretation of the types of speech act and the function of speech act on Bieber'sTweets. In analyzing and collating the data the writer uses several techniques. The first, thewriter makes a list of the data that was taken. The writer chooses the request informationJustin Bieber's Twitter because the responses are good and contain the language style andthe function of the language style. After that, the writer describes what is from the languagestyle and the function in the language style in the request information Justin Bieber’sTweets.The the results show the three types of speech act used in Bieber’s tweet, there areRepresentatives, Directives, and Expressives. From the data on appendices, the writeranalyses 27 data taken from representatives including informing, predicting, and claiming. 7data taken from directives including inviting and suggesting. 17 data taken from expressiveincluding praising, congratulating, thanking, and praying. The writer finds the mix speech actused in Bieber’s Tweet. There are 6 data taken from appendices like representativesdirectives, representatives-directives-expressive. Then, the researcher found four functionsused in Bieber’stweets, they are expressive, directive, referential, and phatic function.But, the most dominant function used in the Bieber’s tweet is referential functionbecause Biebertend to give the information. However poetic, and metalinguistics werenot found in the data.Keywords : speech act, function, context, Bieber’s tweets