NOTION NOTION Volume 01, Number 01, May 2019 1 Reshaping the Society Face through The Culture of Horror Told in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery Fani Alfionita Sari, Ajar PradikaAnanta Tur* English Literature Department, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan alfionitafani27@gmail.com ajar.pradika@enlitera.uad.ac.id* *Corresponding Author Article Info ABSTRACT Article History  Article Received 3 February 2019  Article Reviewed 20 March 2019  Article Accepted 1 April 2019 Keywords perlocutionary act the lottery short story culture of horror society Building a new society can be implemented through cutting the chain of a certain generation. Then, brainwash to younger one will be the powerful weapon to change the face of the society by the authority. This study analyzes the use of perlocutionary acts used by characters in Sirley Jackson's short story, The Lottery, that tells the redaers about the culture of horror expressed by the characters to reshape the face of the society. The descriptive qualitative method was used to investigate the essence of the culture of horror through perlocutionary acts. Besides, the contextual method was also applied to support the meaning of the culture of horror in the form of narration in the short story. The result of this study is that the perlocutionary acts used have 4 out of 5 parts according to the speaker's expression, namely: a) convincing, b) inviting, c) blocking, d) surprising. Then the effects of this perlocutionary act can create a horror effect based on the context, culture, and background of the story. I. INTRODUCTION Because language is the one of the important part of human life, in this research, the researcher chooses speech acts to be the main theory. In human communication, there is not just sent a message, but more than that, there is implicit meaning by a sentence that spoken by someone. To know more about this case, the researcher decides to take speech acts to be the main topic in this research. The theory that will be used in this research is the consequences of perlocutionary act by Austin based on his book, entitled How to Do Things With Word. It was based on lectures given at Oxford between 1951 and 1954, and then at Harvard in 1955. Speech act is one of the branch in pragmatics which examines the language of its actual usage aspect. Speech is a central entity within the pragmatics and is also the basis for the analysis of other topics in this area such as preappropriation, participation, conversational implicatures, principles of cooperation and the principle of politeness. Performing perlocutionary acts is about what bring about or achieve by saying something, such as convincing, persuading, deterring, and even, say, surprising or misleading. Here there are three, if not more, different senses or dimensions of the 'use of a sentence' or of 'the use of language' (and, of course, there are others also). There are the consequences of perlocutionary act according to Austin [1] that are convincing, persuading, dettering, surprising, and misleading. In this research, the researcher uses Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery for the main data to analyze the perlocutionary act. "The Lottery" is a short story