SPEECH ACTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PERSUASION MOVIE SCRIPT WRITTEN BY RONALD BASS AND ALICE VICTORIA WINSLOW

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.