dc.description.abstract | Language has a very important function for humans, namely to communicate. The use of language in communication is precisely reviewed by pragmatics. The field of pragmatics that examines every form of speech in communication is speech acts or speech acts analyzed in the Malay spelling drama script, namely the Tun Tedja Dilarikan Drama script. This research aims to find out how the form of speech acts and the most dominant speech acts contained in the Tun Tedja Dilarikan Drama script. The theory used is speech act which consists of locution, illocution and perlocution. Illocution consists of assertive, directive, commissive, expressive and declarative. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The data source used in this research is the script of Tun Tedja Dilarikan Drama by Dt. Anwar Bey. The data analysis technique in this research is compiling and reading the script of Tun Tedja Dilarikan Drama on each dialogue, translating each dialogue of the drama script into Indonesian, describing and interpreting each dialogue based on pragmatics theory, namely speech acts, interpreting or interpreting the results of the data that has been analyzed and drawing conclusions. The result of this research is that there are 104 speech acts in the dialog of the drama script, each speech act consists of 25 speech acts, 75 illocutionary speech acts and 4 perlocutionary speech acts and the most dominant speech act in this drama script is the illocutionary speech act as many as 75 speech acts. | en_US |