An analysis of declaration speech act in Twilight

This research analyzes about n nalsis of elaration eeh t in iliht The main reason of this research chooses declaration speech act because declaration is the most common speech act which is always used in daily expression. The researcher concentrates to the types of declaration speech act used in twilight novel and the effects result from the declaration speech act in twilight novel. The common theme in this novel is love. The researcher chooses twilight novel because it includes one of the novels with love theme. The discussion, however, is divided into two statements of problem, namely, 1. What are the types of declaration speech act used in twilight novel? 2. What are the effect results from the declaration speech act in twilight novel? Then the data are categorized based on Yule’s theory of declaration speech act identifying declaration types and the effect as the result of declaration. The theory used in this research is based on eorge ule’s theory of declaration speech act. Speech act is one of the studies about how to know more about utterances. In doing this research, the research uses the descriptive qualitative method. Descriptive qualitative method describes the data systematically, factually and accurately, also the correlation between the phenomena that will be researched. The data of this research are collected by the technique of library research by searching data from twilight novel. Declaration speech act is one of speech act form that use in common expression. In any occasion, the action performed by producing an utterance will consist of three related acts. First locutionary act, is the basic act of utterance, or a producing a meaningful linguistic expression. Second illocutionary act, is performed via the communicative force of an utterance. Third perlocutionary act, is simply to create un utterance with a function without intending to have an effect. In this research, the researcher found six declaration speech act types. They are greeting, information question, apologizing, invitation, suggestion and prediction. The effects as result can be classified into two forms, verbal and non verbal. In this research, the researcher found 52 data about the effect as result of declaration types. There are 31 data of verbal forms and 21 data of non verbal forms. The verbal form means that the effects appear in the form of utterances or statements which are directly stated by the characters to show the response or the effect of each declaration type. The non-verbal form means that the effects appear in the form of action or expression given by the characters