Tindak Tutur Ekspresif dalam Novel My Stupid Boss 5 Karya Chaos@Work Ai Kurniati

The novel My Stupid Boss 5 by Chaos @ Work became the most awaited novel by fans after the release of the novel My Stupid Boss 1-4. The series of humorous stories in this novel are true stories from the author. This paper discusses the speech acts in the novel My Stupid Boss 5 because almost all the utterances in the story of this novel contain different expressions. Every expression that arises is the author's strategy to make the story have a sense of humour. The funny and adorable utterances of the characters in the story, pragmatically, can be examined in illocutionary acts, more specifically expressive speech acts. This study aims to describe expressive speech acts in the novel My Stupid Boss 5. The method used is descriptive-qualitative as a problem-solving procedure by describing expressive speech acts in the novel My Stupid Boss 5. My Stupid Boss 5 novel by Chaos @ Work has a tendency to have expressive illocutionary acts with five (5) indicators: (a) expressive speech acts criticizing, (b) expressive speech acts of complaining, (c) expressive speech acts of blaming, (d) expressive speech acts praising, and (e) expressive speech acts flattering.