Illocutionary Act Analysis in Main Character’s Utterance of “The Shawshank Redemption” Movie
Keywords:
Speech acts, Illocutionary act, “The Shawshank Redemption” MovieAbstract
The purpose of this research is to classify the types of illocutionary acts and find the dominant type of the main character's utterances in the “The Shawshank Redemption” movie. And the researcher only focuses on the two main characters in the film, namely Andy Dufrense and Ellis Boyd Redding. This researcher applied a descriptive qualitative design. The data is taken from the film script and dialogue of the main character are 163 selected utterances. The theories used in this research are John R Searle's speech act theory and. The findings of this study show that all types of illocutionary acts are found, namely Representative as many as 78 utterances or 47.89%, Declarative acts as many as 6 utterances or 3.68%, Commissive acts as many as 11 utterances or 6.73%, Directive acts as many as 51 utterances or 30.67%, and expressive acts as many as 18 utterances or 11.04%. In conclusion, Representative acts is the most dominant type of illocutionary act found in the main character's utterances, and the minority act is declarative acts.
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