EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACT OF JUDGES’ NARRATIVES IN X-FACTOR INDONESIA TALENT SHOW ON RAJAWALI CITRA TELEVISI INDONESIA (RCTI): A PRAGMATIC STUDY

This article tends to find out the types of expressive speech act of judges’ narratives and politeness strategies and substrategies used in X-Factor Indonesia talent show broadcasted by Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI). The method used in this article is descriptive method which describe the data systematically, actually, and accurately. The technique of data collecting uses uninvolved conversation observation technique. The use of this technique means that the present writer does not involve in the dialogues. Meanwhile, for the technique of data analysis, the present writer uses pragmatic competence-in-dividing. The data used in this article is judges’ narratives of X-Factor Indonesia talent show broadcasted from March 22 to May 3 2013. The main theory of this article is the pragmatic theory of Searle’s Speech Act and Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Strategy (2007). The result of the research shows that the types of expressive speech act of judges’ narratives of X-Factor Indonesia are praising, congratulating, thanking, and criticizing. The politeness strategies of X-Factor Indonesia judges are positive politeness, bald on record, and off record strategies.