This study intends to investigate the type and the frequency of direct and indirect speech act represented in the dialogues of english textbook for senior high school grade xi published by team masmedia buana pustaka. in doing so, a number of fifteen dialogues from five units of the textbook were chosen purposively and analyzed by using searle’s pragmatics model. the content analysis was applied as a means to find out and investigate the type as well as the frequency of direct and indirect speech act. the result of coding and categorizing of the dialogues showed that there were several main categories of searle’s type of speech act had been used; the assertive, commissive, directive, expressive and indirect speech act. the division of labor of these categories indicated that the assertive speech was found to have been used 39 %, the directive speech act got the maximum share of 34.8 % and the expressive was employed 11.9 %. meanwhile, the commissive speech act, one of crucial speech

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