Writer / NIM
MIFTAHUL KHAIRI / 701517015
Study Program
S2 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Advisor 1 / NIDN
Prof. NONNY BASALAMA, MA, Ph.D. / 0010036804
Advisor 2 / NIDN
Dr. USMAN PAKAYA, M.A. / 0004057705
Abstract
Pragmatics and 21st Century craft people mind to be more critical and scientific oriented. It means people need a solid news, information, innovation, particularly guidance. Even they mostly concern about the development of science and technologies, they cannot deny about the inner needs, the spiritual one. Zakir Naik, one of the phenomenal Islamic Scholars nowadays, with his speech in Oxford Union Debate, "Islam and 21st Century" brings the people out from the misconceptions of Islam and the eligibility of Holy Qur'an to each era of this globe till this millennial time. This study focuses on the Speech Act the Searle's theory. Therefore, the outcome of this work is the interpretation of Mr. Naik utterances (speech transcription) related to the theory and the millennial phenomena. Consequently, this study is descriptive qualitative research methodology. The technique of collecting the data is textual and visual analysis. The technique data analysing is done by several steps (1) detail reading, (2) identifying, (3) categorizing, (4) describing and interpreting. This study finds the speech arrangement of Dr Zakir Naik and there are 5 major speech act categories are found in this study; Assertive, Directive, Commissive, Expressive and Excersitive. Each category has its own sub-dimensional type. The research interpretation elaborates the data of the speech act which explains how solid Zakir Naik's speech performance. This research is constructively developing the study of linguistics, particularly in speech act matter.
Key words: Speech Act, Zakir Naik, Islam & 21st Century
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