Humor, criticism, and power: An illocutionary speech act in Ahmad Bahjat’s short story “Juha Wa As-Sultan”

Pramudita, Ika Firnanda and Yurisa, Penny Respati ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2050-7987 (2026) Humor, criticism, and power: An illocutionary speech act in Ahmad Bahjat’s short story “Juha Wa As-Sultan”. NIVEDANA Jurnal komunikasi dan Bahasa. ISSN 2723-7664

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Abstract

This research aims to describe the forms of illocutionary speech acts in the short story Juḥā wa as-Sulṭān
by Aḥmad Bahjat and to examine language as a medium of humor, criticism, and power negotiation. This
study employs a qualitative descriptive approach using John R. Searle‘s theory of speech acts, which
includes five types: representative (assertive), directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. The
data consist of twelve utterances by the characters, analyzed based on their illocutionary force and
contextual meaning. The results show that representative and directive illocutionary acts appear in three
data points each, while expressive, commissive, and declarative acts occur in two data points respectively

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	illocutionary speech acts, pragmatics, humor, social criticism, Ahmad Bahjat
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2099 Other Language, Communication and Culture > 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of Arabic Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Penny Respati Yurisa
Date Deposited:	12 May 2026 09:10

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