‘DO NOT TERRORIZE ME WITH YOUR WORDS, PLEASE!‘: THE ANALYSIS OF PERLOCUTIONARY ACT OF THE VERBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDONESIA

Abstract

What people say can bring about some reactions. These reactions are called a perlocutionary act.  This paper is aimed at describing the perlocutionary act of verbal violence against women.  The objective of this writing is to identify the perlocutionary acts of  the women as the victims of the violence verbally. The data were taken in DKI Jakarta and Sumatra Barat by using interviews, note-taking, recording, and questionnaires. There were around 30 women respondents. These women were the victims of verbal violence domestically.  The analysis was done by using the concept proposed by (Revita, 2013) and (Austin, 1962) The result of the analysis was descriptively and narratively done. Besides, the percentage was also used to highlight the number of occurrences of a certain perlocution.  Having analyzed the data, it is found that there are two general reactions as the perlocution of the women, victims of verbal violence domestically. They are 1) arguing, 2) replying with the same words, 3) groveling,  and 4) saying nothing but doing something like crying or being silent. ‘Saying nothing’ occurs more than others because the women surrendered with the circumstances that are also in line with the cycle of the violence itself.