Fajriyati Waibah Mosambonga, 0203519016 (2022) THE COMPARISON OF THE COMMISSIVE ACTS IN THE PROSPECTUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA. Masters thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

This study aimed to compare the commissive acts in the prospectus of the University of Oxford (OU) and Universitas Indonesia (UI) to see their similarities and differences. This study used the qualitative approach with discourse study. The data were English-written prospectuses from OU, The World's Best University and UI, The Best Indonesian University in 2020, based on the 2020 World University Rankings by Times Higher Education (THE). Specifically, data were taken only from forty-nine courses in Undergraduate Programs from each prospectus. Data were analyzed using six types of commissive acts instruments according to Searle (1976), namely Promise, Threaten, Guarantee, Refuse, Volunteer, and Offer supported with (IFIDs) and Felicity Conditions. Data were analyzed by identifying the types of commissive acts, classifying, comparing, interpreting, and concluding. This study found four similarities; only three types of commissive acts, such as Promise, Guarantee and Offer existed in both prospectuses. The Guarantee type was the most dominant existed in both prospectuses. Both tend to present commissive acts implicitly. For Promise and Guarantee both do not present them explicitly. Three differences were; more commissive acts existed in OU’s prospectus (312), while UI only (193). On the Promise type, OU tends to address its readers using you, while UI uses students. On the Offer type, OU only presented it explicitly (27) times, while UI did it explicitly (17) and implicitly (3) times. The results of this study are expected to provide additional information regarding the proper use of commissive acts to attract readers' interest.

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