SPEECH ACT IN THE BREADWINNER MOVIE SCRIPT (2017) WRITTEN BY ANITA DORON

Abstract

The objective of this research were to find out the types of speech acts and describe the functions of speech acts contained in The Breadwinner movie script. In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method and locutionary and perlocutionary theory from Austin and illocutionary theory from Searle to analyze the types of speech acts and their functions in the The Breadwinner movie script. The results of the study show that there were 3 types of speech acts used in The Breadwinner movie script, namely locutionary speech acts consisting of imperative, interrogative, and declarative. Illocutionary speech acts consisting of assertive, directive, commissive and expressive. And perlocutionary speech acts. The locutionary speech act was the most dominant speech act appeared in The Breadwinner movie script. Locutionary speech acts had different functions according to their type, such as locutionary speech acts which had 3 functions, namely: imperative function, interrogative function, and declarative function. Illocutionary speech act had 5 functions, namely: assertive function, directive function, commissive function, and expressive function. Meanwhile, perlocutionary speech acts only have one function, namely influencing the speech partner so that the speech partner taken a certain action