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 Persuasion movie
script written by Ronald Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow.
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’s and Searle’s theories.
The results show that there were 3 types of speech acts used in Persuasion
movie script, namely locutionary act which consisted of imperative, interrogative,
and declarative. Illocutionary act which consisted of assertive, directive,
commissive, expressive, and declarative. Then, perlocutionary act. The locutionary
speech act was the most dominant type of speech acts that appeared in Persuasion
movie script. Locutionary act had different functions according to their type, such
as locutionary act 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, expressive function,
and declarative function. Therefore, perlocutionary speech acts only have one
function, namely influencing the listener to take a certain action.
