Expressive Illocutionary Speech Acts in Webtoon Dark Moon - The Blood Altar - Qualitative descriptive study

Aug 25, 2026

Study describes expressive illocutionary speech acts used in the webtoon Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, a fantasy serialized young romance narrative. Qualitative research employs descriptive analysis, with data collected through rereading and recording character conversations, atmosphere, and events. Findings identify 224 expressive illocutionary speech acts across episodes one to twenty, including praise, thanksgiving, criticizing, complaining, blaming, congratulatory, and ﬂattering utterances.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages10

Reading Time25 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

Language and speech acts background

Method

Descriptive qualitative approach

Data collection and analysis (Miles & Huberman)

Results and Discussion

Distribution of expressive illocutionary speech act types

Expressive Illocutionary Speech Acts in Webtoon Dark Moon: The Blood Altar Zulfa Mabila Herman and Markhamah(B) Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia [markhamah@ums.ac.id](markhamah@ums.ac.id) Abstract. This study aims to describe the use of expressive illocutionary speech acts found in the webtoon Dark Moon: The Blood Altar. A fantasy serialized story of the young romance genre. This research method uses qualitative methods with descriptive analysis. The data collection technique used is reading and recording, a form of expressive illocutionary speech acts in the conversations of Dark Moon characters: The BloodAltar, the atmosphere, and the events that occur. The results showed that there were 224 expressive illocutionary speech acts in episodes one to twenty on the Dark Moon webtoon: The Blood Altar, which includes, nineteen praise utterances, twenty-three thanksgiving utterances, ﬁfty-four criticizing utterances, ﬁfty-six complaining utterances, forty-eight blaming utterances, four congratulatory utterances, and a ﬂattering utterance of twenty. Keywords: Expressive Illocution · Speech Acts · Webtoon 1 Introduction The most important communication tool of human beings is Language. Language is indispensable for every individual life. With language humans can convey the thoughts they want to convey with each other. According to A’yuni and Parji (2017) language creates rapid reciprocity. The use of language that is not used properly, the response obtained will be slow when receiving the message. From the use of language is created the act of speech. This action is demonstrated through utterances from speakers to other speech partners. According to Budiman & Agus (2016) the purpose of a speech is to convey information, persuade, convey news, rule and so on. Speech acts ﬁrst introduced by Austin (1965:94) are called formative utterances, which include locution, illocution, and perlocution actions (Yuliantoro, 2020) . Research has been conducted by FitriahandSiti(2017), Fakhriyah(2020)who examined speech acts in novels. According to Searle, pragmatically speech acts are classiﬁed into three types, namely, locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts. One of the illocutionary speech acts is a speech that states something that is accompanied by action [9] . © The Author(s) 2023 M. H. Hikmat et al. (Eds.): ICOLAE 2022, ASSEHR 757, pp. 2560–2569, 2023 . [https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-086-2](https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-086-2_202)[_](https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-086-2_202)[202](https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-086-2_202) Expressive Illocutionary Speech Acts 2561 Expressive speech acts are utterances delivered by speech partners or utterances that occurred before the event occurred. Communication creates a utterance init that contains a speaker, a person who conveys thoughts or ideas, and information. The existence of a speech partner, a person who acts as a target speaker in understanding a narrative. A speech act can be found in various places, not only during daily conversations, in modern media there can also be found speech acts, such as one example in webtoon media. Webtoon is an online comic that has a visual structure, providing information in the form of images, which aims to prevent readers from getting bored easily. Webtoonscan be downloaded and read online or ofﬂine, thereby increasing the number of reader enthusiasts. Theresearch on expressive speech acts was conductedbyMu’awanah(2020), Astawa et al(2017), RahmadhaniandAsep(2020), Murti et al(2018), Meirisa&Fathiaty(2017), Budiman and Agus (2016), A’yuni and Parji (2017), Faradila and Esti (2020) . The development of this era creates a type of work that utilizes modern technology. This also attracts a writer to develop new ideas. Webtoon media, for example, was developed for anyone who has skill

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the study on Dark Moon: The Blood Altar?

To describe the use of expressive illocutionary speech acts found in the webtoon Dark Moon: The Blood Altar.

How is the data collected in this research?

By rereading the webtoon and recording expressive illocutionary speech acts appearing in character conversations, atmosphere, and events.

Which episodes are analyzed in the study?

Episodes one to twenty are included in the analysis.

What results are reported about expressive illocutionary speech acts?

A total of 224 expressive illocutionary speech acts are identified, categorized into praise, thanksgiving, criticizing, complaining, blaming, congratulatory, and flattering utterances.

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