Nidchakul Soprom. A classification of illocutionary speech act and its characterization in fitness youtube vloggers motivational speech: a case study of cassey ho from blogilates channel. (). Mae Fah Luang University. Learning Resources and Educational Media Center. : , 2022.
A classification of illocutionary speech act and its characterization in fitness youtube vloggers motivational speech: a case study of cassey ho from blogilates channel
Abstract:
A motivational speech is considered a communicative tool used by fitness trainers to encourage people to exercise and to help them eventually achieve their exercise goals. This research study aimed at analyzing the functions of illocutionary speech act and the characterization of speech act; direct and indirect speech acts used under the exercise motivational utterance. Searles model of illocutionary speech act as well as Yules model of direct and indirect speech acts were applied as frameworks of this research study. The data were collected in a total of 1,000 chunks from four fitness videos on Blogilates YouTube channel. From the analysis of 1,000 chunks, the results illustrated that four functions of illocutionary speech act, namely; assertives, directives, expressives, and commissives, were found from the analysis, in which the directive act was the most common function of illocutionary speech act used under the exercise motivational utterance. Meanwhile, the declaration act was not found in this context. In terms of the characterization of speech act, the results indicated that the direct speech act was used the most in the exercise motivational utterance. The results of this study could contribute to the fitness trainers on how to speak in order to motivate people to do the exercise as a fitness professional, and it can contribute to people who are interested in enriching their knowledge in the speech acts field.
Mae Fah Luang University. Learning Resources and Educational Media Center