Investigating Speech Acts In Selected Dialogues Concerning Multicultural Values In the Indonesian Ministry of Educational & Culture- Endorsed High School Textbook: A Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This paper is a discourse analysis that aims at investigating speech acts in a selected dialogue about multicultural values in the Indonesian Ministry of Educational & Culture-endorsed high school EFL textbook (twelfth grade). Speech acts theory was employed in processing the analysis of dialogues. The intended features were recognized, categorized, identified separately, and analyzed based on five major speech acts developed by Searle (1976). The findings revealed that 51% of utterances includes in the assertive category, the expressive category is 29%, while the directive and commissive categories have the same results (10%), and the declarative category does not have any outcome (0%). In addition, the presentation of the multicultural value in the Indonesian Ministry of Educational and Culture-Endorsed High School EFL Textbook (twelfth grade) 2018 revision through dialogue has proved to lack key. Based on this finding, it is recommended to investigate how the multicultural values are presented in the newest edition of textbooks and to cultivate the multicultural values using another methodology or the future researchers can use gender as the subject of the study.