Pragmatics Study: Commissive Speech Act Analysis in Song Lyrics “PERFECT“ by Ed Sheeran

Abstract

The aim of this study is to describe the forms of commissive speech act in song lyrics “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. The data are purposively chosen in order to answer the research question. The data of this research are the commissive speech act used in the song lyrics of “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. This article employs the descriptive qualitative research, supported by some descriptive quantification. Thus, this article analyses the commissive speech act and its function. To explain the text clearly, a pragmatic analysis will be employed. The researcher finds the results (1) the whole data of commissive speech act in song lyrics “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran are 8 data that consist of 4 forms of commissive speech act used in song lyrics “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran namely promise, refusal, volunteer and offer. promise consists of 4 data, refusal consists of 1 data, volunteer consists of 2 data and offer consists of 1 data. The result of the study is “promise speech acts” is mostly used promise because the singer wanted to persuade her girlfriend to do something by using future predictive behaviour that the singer must believe can act in order to make the listener believe.