Speech Act of The Oath Utterances of Doomsday in English Translation of The Al-Quran
Habib Faisal Nasution
Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan - Indonesia
Abstract
The aims of this study were to find out the types of speech act of oath utterances of doomsday of English translation of Al-Quran namely three surah namely At-Takhwir, Al-Infithar and Al-Insyiqaq.The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data of this study were oath utterances of English translation. Then the data of study was analyzed by using types of speech act based on (Searle, 1979) which used to answer the questions number one.The data of study was analyzed based on Miles, Huberman and Saldana (2014).The results of this study were found that there was only one type of speech act in oath utterances namely illucutionary act.
Keywords: Speech Act
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education