A Pragmatic Analysis of Love Expression in the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Abstract

This research deals with analyzing the types of speech act in the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. The research question relates to the pragmalinguistics form of love utterance, the speaker’s intention in love utterance, and the speech act in love utterance used in the novel. The aim of this study is to identify the types of illocutionary acts that produced by the characters in the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks based on Searle’s speech act classification. They are representative, directive, commissive, expressive and declarative. The analysis mainly uses qualitative research. The study of document as the technique of collecting data. The data of this research taken from the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.