The Use of Speech Acts In Umpasa Toba Wedding Ceremony
This study deals with The Use of Speech Acts In Umpasa Toba Wedding Ceremony. The data of this study were the umpasa in Toba Wedding Ceremony. The utterances which contain Illocutionary Acts were identified and analyzed. This study applied qualitative method. The findings show that there are four types of speech acts in Toba Wedding Ceremony, namely: Directives (71,87%), Commissives (6,25%), Representatives (3,12%), Declaratives (18,75). Directives is the most dominant appeared in Toba Wedding Ceremony with 23 utterance or (71, 87%). The reason of the dominant type of speech acts appeared because umpasa in Toba Wedding Ceremony mostly used for giving moral message or advices.
6 pages, 5 figures.-- PACS nr.: 43.58.Dj.-- Communication presented at: Forum Acusticum Sevilla 2002 (Sevilla, Spain, 16-20 Sep 2002), comprising: 3rd European Congress on Acoustics; XXXIII Spanish Congress on Acoustics (TecniAcustica 2002); European and Japanese Symposium on Acoustics; 3rd Iberian Congress on Acoustics.-- Special issue of the journal Revista de Acustica, Vol. XXXIII, year 2002.