NABEELAH, MASZIDAH ELOK
(2022)
SPEECH ACT STUDY: ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE BLIND SIDE MOVIE.
[Undergraduate Thesis]
Abstract
The study of meaning and function of an utterance is known as speech act. When
the speaker says something, speech act occur as a result of how listener interpret
the intention. Illocutionary acts are the action performed related by the speaker’s
word and perform an action as a result. Illocutionary acts are the action performed
related by the speaker in producing a given utterance. Searle (2010) stated that
illocutionary acts have five classifications, namely: representative, directive,
commissive, expressive, and declarative. But in this occasion, this research focuses
in finding the most used type of illocutionary acts uttered by the main characters in
The Blind Side movie. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. Data of this
research re in the form of sentences or utterances containing illocutionary acts
uttered by the main characters. The data collected from transcript of The Blind Side
movie, then determines the type of illocutionary act utterances into one of the type
of illocutionary acts, such as representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and
declarative. The results showed that representative is the most common type of
illocutionary acts found in the transcript of The Bind Side movie, because the two
main characters often uses an utterance to state about something to the hearer.
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