Illocutionary Speech Acts Used by the Main Characters in Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2

• Cantik Novia Mulyani
• 2021

---

Cantik Novia Mulyani (31180063), Illocutionary Speech Acts Used by the Main Characters in Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2

 

The research focuses on the use of illocutionary acts in the movie script “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2”. The goal of this study is to use Searle's speech act classification to detect and examine the use of illocutionary acts in James Gunn’s The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2. Descriptive qualitative research was used by the writer. The data from the movie script was divided into five categories: representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declaration speech act and then analyzed them. The writer discovered a total of 118 pieces of information. The most common sort of speech act in character dialogue is representative, which is one of the five categories of speech acts. Predicting, informing, asserting, rejecting, claiming, thinking, and believing are among the 61 data that make up 51.7% of the overall data The directive speech act came next, with 40 utterances (33.9% of all illocutionary speech act utterances) being used. Commanding, advising, asking, ordering, requesting, and proposing are the main directive speech acts employed in the movie script. Around 10 utterances, or 8.5% of the total data, used the commissive speech act. The following words are used in this movie script to commit the speaker to do something in the future: offering, committing and promising. There are 7 utterances of expressive speech act, accounting for 5.9% of the total data include; apologizing, thanking, and regretting. While for the declaration speech act, the writer did not find any utterances from the three main characters were analyzed.

• Illocutionary acts

Austin, J. L. (1962). How to do things…. Oxford University Press 1962. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839429693-021

Green, M. (2020). Speech Acts. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Grundy, P. (2020). Doing Pragmatics Fourth Edition (fourth edi). Routledge.

Guest, G., Namey, E. E., & Mitchell, L. M. (2012). Qualitative Research Defining and Designing. In Collecting Qualitative Data?: A Field Manual for Applied Research (pp. 1–40). SAGE Publications.

Joni, T., Aristo, V., & Ege, F. (2018). The analysis of speech act in a comic conversation. Journal of English Educational Study, 1(1), 34–42.

Keeffe, A. O., Clancy, B., & Adolphs, S. (2020). Introducing Pragmatics in Use (Second Wdi). Routledge.

Leech, G. (2014). Principles of Pragmatics (R. H. Robins, G. Horrocks., & D. Denison (eds.); Fourth Edi). Routledge.

Margana. (2012). Raising Knowledge of Illocutionary Acts and Implicatures used in a Thesis Examination Context for Student of English Language Education Study Program. Journal of English and Education, 6, 40–52.

Palupi, M. E. (2020). Analisis Kesalahan Penulisan Kata dan Singkatan Dalam Kalimat Bahasa Indonesia di Media Sosial. AKRAB JUARA, 5, 286–296.

Pardede, H. (2016). SEMANTICS?: A View to Logic of Language.

Rachmawati, E., Nashrullah, A., & Said, I. (2017). Illocutionary Acts of Main Characters in Dead Poet Society and Freedom Writers. JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy), 1(2), 24. https://doi.org/10.25157/jall.v1i2.1825

Rgg, E. I., & Bachtiar. (2014). Illocutionary Actin Karate Kid ’ S Movie. 378–386.

Satria Raharja, A. U., & Rosyidha, A. (2019). Maxim of Cooperative Principle Violation by Dodit Mulyanto in Stand-up Comedy Indonesia Season 4. Journal of Pragmatics Research, 1(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.18326/jopr.v1i1.62-77

Searle, J. R. (1979). A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts. University of California.

Suardana, I. P. E. (2020). Speech acts found in the novel “Snowing in Bali.” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 7(1), 23–31. https://doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v7n1.1106

Wibowo, A., & Cempaka, G. (2020). Speech Act Classification and Request Strategy in “Tall Girl” Movie Directed by Nzingha Stewart. Lingua?: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pengajarannya, 17.

Yuksel, D., & Tanriverdi, B. (2009). EFFECTS OF WATCHING CAPTIONED MOVIE CLIP ON VOCABULARY. 8(2).

Yule, G. (2014). The Study of Language (Fifth Edit). Cambridge University Press.