This paper discusses about the comparison between two journals on the same topic.

The topic
which used is speech acts. The first journal is about the modal verbs: a speech acts of request in
the speech of the president of the united states Barak Obama and the second is various speech
acts in disclosing conversational implicature among UKM KSR PMI Unit Unila members in
Lampung University. The first journal about

The second journal discussed about speech acts in disclosing conversation among the members
of UKM KSR PMI Unit in Lampung University. The researcher uses qualitative descriptive
method because she describes the form of conversation which contains implicature used by the
participants. The sources in this journal are from the conversation among the members of UKM
KSR PMI Unit in Lampung University. This journal use different theory from the first journal,
the researcher use parker theory of direct and indirect speech acts. The result of this study shows
that the members of UKM KSR PMI Unit in Lampung University use direct non-literal speech
act, indirect literal speech acts, and indirect non-literal speech act. Direct literal speech acts
cannot be found because it closely related of the effect of politeness.