Name : Windi Fitria
Id : 5032011049
Class : 20a English Literature
Course : Language Competency
Critical Review Article Journal Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts on The Video
of Prabowo Vs Jokowi - Epic Rap Battles Of Presidency
Introduction
In the introductory chapter in the journal Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts on The
Video of Prabowo Vs Jokowi - Epic Rap Battles Of Presidency, published 16 May 2019
by Burhanudin Rais1 & Sulis Triyono2 1Student, Applied Linguistics Program,
Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia 2 Lecturer, Applied Linguistics Program,
Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, in this introduction the researcher has a fairly
complete explanation of the article that will be discussed, he also explains some of the
results of previous research and puts them in the introduction section. The researchers are
interested in conducting research to find pragmatic features of this video. In particular,
the researcher will focus on speech acts in the illocutionary category, here the researcher
also conducts research by following the illocutionary act category based on Searle's
theory. In this research, the researcher found only four out of five categories of
illocutionary acts consisting of directive, representative, expressive and commissive
Article structure
In the review structure of this journal, it includes a complete explanation of pragmatics
and speech acts and the methodology is explained in detail, but in the pragmatics section,
only definitions are explained, there is no conclusion from the definition according to the
experts that the researcher made, while in the speech act section, the explanation and
examples are complete. examples are included 3.1 Locutionary Follows According to
