Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning and intention of the term "Eyyyy" among speakers as well as to scrutinize its relevance of uses in communication based on the context of the speakers. As the study employed a qualitative research approach utilizing discourse analysis, particularly in the field of pragmatics, this undertaking delved into corpus contained the utterance of "Eyyyy" that were taken from the social media sites such as TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. The study utilized the Illocutionary Speech Acts of Searle (1969) and the Relevance Theory of Sperber and Wilson (1986). The results revealed that the utterances of "Eyyyy" can be classified as representative, directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative based on its function, accounting for the context of the speakers. Further, it was also revealed that the meaning of the utterance "Eyyyy" can be varied in different contexts based on its relevance of uses such as acknowledging the presence of others or their achievements, to inform others, throwing jokes, sayings in life, showing pleasure, giving encouragement to others and greeting someone or everyone. Finally, this research was conducted to better understand the intention of utilizing the utterance of "Eyyyy" far from its general meaning, and the relevance of its uses in communication.
