The Humanist Expressive Speech Acts of Journalists in the Covid-19 Outbreak

• Published in: Seloka: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 264 - 272
• Main Authors: Supriyono, Areni Yulitawati, Zulaeha, Ida, Yuniawan, Tommi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Indonesian
• Published: Universitas Negeri Semarang 31.12.2020
• Subjects: covid-19, expressive, journalist, speech acts
• ISSN: 2301-6744; 2502-4493
• DOI: 10.15294/seloka.v9i3.41945

This research aims to analyze the humanist expressive speech acts of journalists in the covid-19 outbreak. The data collection technique was carried out by using the free non-participatory technique. The sources of data are the journalists’ utterances on YouTube in the covid-19 Outbreak. The humanist expressive speech act forms used by journalists, is 58% used the direct speech act forms with imperative, interrogative, and declarative modes; and 42% forms of indirect speech acts were declarative-imperative and declarative-interrogative modes. Results of this study shows that journalists use the forms of direct speech acts with declarative mode mostly. The form of indirect speech acts with the declarative-imperative mode are mostly used by the journalists. This research is important to be a journalist's guide so that the utterances spoken can be accepted by the society in the covid-19 outbreak