SPEECH ACTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN ANOMALISA MOVIE SCRIPT WRITTEN BY CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Abstract

This research aims to find out the types of speech acts and the function of speech acts produced by the main character which contained in Anomalisa movie script written by Charlie Kaufman. The writer used qualitative descriptive and pragmatic approach in analyzing the data. The data were obtained by reading, identifying, highlighting and classifying the utterances that contained speech acts in the main character’s utterance based on Austin and Searle theories. The result shows that there were three types of speech acts used in Anomalisa movie script, they were (1) Locutionary which consisted of imperative, interrogative and declarative. (2) Illocutionary which consisted of directive, assertive, commissive and expressive. Then, (3) Perlocutionary which consisted of act of laughing, act of asking, act of scaring, act of inviting and act of persuading.