Expressive acts in the judges' comments in "The Voice USA 2017"

This study discusses expressive acts in the judges’ comments in “The Voice USA 2017”. The aim of this study is to examine the types of expressive acts and the strategies used by commentators to realize the expressive acts. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. The researcher collected the data from the transcription in the judges’ comments in “The Voice USA 2017” videos by underlining the parts of conversation which contain the types of expressive acts. The researcher was the main instrument who collected and analyzed the data. The steps of analyzing the data were: identifying the data, classifying the data based on each type of expressive acts, describing the classified data, and drawing a conclusion. The results of this study, the researcher found 84 utterances which are contained 4 types of expressive acts. They are praising, congratulating, thanking, and criticizing. And the researcher found 3 strategies used by commentators to realize the expressive acts. Those 3 strategies are positive politeness strategy, bald on record strategy, and off record strategy.