An Analysis of Declarative Speech Act in The Movie My Lawyer, Mr Jo: Pragmatics Approach

Garda Arif Wicaksono

doi:10.30870/jels.v3i1.2384

Abstract

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning. This Paper entitle “ An Analysis of Declarative Speech Act in The Movie My Lawyer, Mr Jo” discussed the analysis of speech act especially Declarative based on the Searle (1969). Speech act is a part of pragmatic that studies about utterances. It is defined as action performed via utterances(Yule,1996). Classification of Speech act (Searle:1969) are Assertives; Commisives; Expressives; Directives and Declaration. In this paper the writer focus on Declaration and analysis My Lawyer,Mr Jo. The objectives of this research were first to Undrestanding Speech act and Types of Speech act. Second, to find out of Declarative Speech act in Movie My Lawyer,Mr Jo. This research the writer use descriptive qualitative method. Keywords: Pragmatics;Speech act; Classification of Speech act; Declaration; My Lawyer, Mr Jo.

Highlights

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication
It is in line with Horn and Ward who state that, Pragmatics is the study of the context-dependent aspects of meaning which are systematically abstracted away from in the construction of content logical form
In this paper the writer focused on declarative speech act on My Lawyer, Mr Joo the researcher analysis utterance which contains declarative speech act

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Introduction

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication. In pragmatics, we study about speaker’s meaning that is how meaning is communicated based on its context. It is in line with Horn and Ward (in Taping et al, 2017) who state that, Pragmatics is the study of the context-dependent aspects of meaning which are systematically abstracted away from in the construction of content logical form. Yule (2005:3) said that pragmatics is the study of how more get communicated than is said. Speech act is a part of Pragmatic that studies about utterances. It is defined as action performed via utterances (Yule, 1996:64).Classifies speech act into five categories: Representative; Directive; Commisive; Expressive; Declaration (Searle: in Levinson, 1983:240)

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