LINGUISTICS FINAL PAPER
Saidah Turahmah 4B- English Letters Departement Linguistics paper(Final Test) Theory background To analyze the research object such humor comics, I applied locution, illocution, and per locution theories. These theories always thick on society’s daily conversation so that I took them to analysis how it was shaped from many words planned on make a humor. John R Searle (1983) in his book Speech Acts: An Essay in The Philosophy of Language said that in language using there are three kinds speech acts. They are locution acts, illocution acts, per locution acts. · Locution acts is a speech act with words, phrase, and sentence with the same meaning as those words, phrase, and sentences. It called the act of saying something [1] . · Illocution acts are speech acts to do something which have own meaning and aims too. It called the act of doing something. · Per locution acts is speech act to apply affect to the listener. It called the act of