Third-Person Passive Voice in Illustrative Explanatory Speech Acts by Residents of Sumberejo, Ambulu, Jember

Third-person passive voice as one of the many topics of grammatical semantics is used to describe the relationship between the third actor and the action in the form of passive verbs in a grammatically meaningful sentence. The formulation of the problem in this study is what and how the construction of third-person passive voice in speech acts is explained illustratively by residents of Sumberejo Village, Ambulu District, Jember Regency. This descriptive qualitative research is classified as ethnographic communication research. Data collection through listening and speech techniques After the data is collected, it is then analyzed through categorical, descriptive, and distributional methods. The theory in this research is the theory of generative transformation by Chomsky (1965) and the theory of speech acts by Searle (1979). The result of the research shows that there are a total of 10 types of third person passive voice in illustrative explaining speech acts by residents of Sumberejo Village, Ambulu District, Jember Regency. The division of the topic types of third-person passive voice is based on the form of suffix and the nature of the passive verb with the type of speech act of explaining with illustrative strategies.