Directive speech acts found on english translation of quran surah al baqarah by muhammad mufti taqi usmani

This thesis presents the directivesspeechfound in the English translation of al-Quran SurahAl Baqarahby Muhammad Mufti Taqi Usmani. This researchanalyzes theDirectiveSpeech Acts used in SurahAl Baqarah. This researchhas two research problems. The first is kinds ofdirective speech acts that appear in SurahAl Baqarahand the second is what the function ofa directive speech acts in the English Translation ofQuran SurahAl Baqarahby Muhammad Mufti Taqi Usmani. Researchers used a descriptive qualitative design. The data of this researchis theEnglishtranslation of Quran SurahAl Baqarahby Muhammad Mufti Taqi Usmani. The main theory used in this researchis a directive speech acts described by George Yule (1986) in the book "Pragmatics"The results of this study indicate that the researcher found 60verses in English Translation of Quran SurahAl Baqarahwhich containdirective speech acts. There are 43 verses that contained the command speech act, 13 verses encompass of request speech act, 3 versesof suggestionspeech act, and 1verseregarding order speech act.This researchalso reveals the function of directive speech acts. Verse function that characterized as command speech actto convey the speakers wishes to the hearer to make hearer do something. Then, the request speech acts appear when the speaker wants to ask something to the hearer. The function of suggestionspeech act is to give the listener to take action.An order speech actis to make hearerto perform an action.