ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS IN NETIZENS’ RESPONSES TO THE “INDONESIA GELAP” POLITICAL DISCOURSE ON X

Yasir Mubarok, Artika Salsa Bila Ashari, Regina Aysha Edlyn


Abstract


This study examines illocutionary speech acts in netizens’ comments on X regarding the President’s “Indonesia Gelap” speech and explains their functions in constructing criticism, satire, opinions, and emotional expressions. This study employed a descriptive qualitative approach. Data were drawn from netizens’ comments on X about the President’s speech on migration abroad. The data consisted of written utterances containing illocutionary speech acts and were collected through observation and note-taking. The data were analyzed using Miles et al.’s (2014) interactive model. The findings show that expressive speech acts were the most dominant type, accounting for 75.53% of the data, followed by assertive speech acts (17.02%) and directive speech acts (7.45%). Expressive speech acts were primarily used to express anger, satire, criticism, and dissatisfaction toward public figures and socio-political conditions. Assertive speech acts functioned to convey opinions, evaluations, and claims, whereas directive speech acts appeared in the form of suggestions, commands, and prohibitions directed at particular parties. Commissive and declarative speech acts were absent from the dataset. These findings indicate that political communication on X tends to be spontaneous, emotional, and confrontational. Social media thus serves as a space for emotional expression, social criticism, and public opinion formation. This study contributes to digital pragmatics by demonstrating how expressive language functions as a dominant mechanism for political criticism and emotional engagement in online public discourse.

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Communication politics; digital pragmatics; illocutionary speech acts; netizen expressions; social media X

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