An analysis of directive illocutionary acts in the complex: lockdown 2020 movie

Ni Made Putri Sugiantini,Ib Gde Nova Winartha,Putu Devi Maharani

doi:10.22334/traverse.v2i2.39

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This goal of this study is to describe the types of directive illocutionary act and to find out the most dominant directives speech act performed by the characters in The Complex: Lockdown movie through the theory of Speech Act by Kreidler (1998) and supported by the theory from Searle (1979). In analyzing the data, descriptive qualitative method is used. This study found 73 data of directive illocutionary act performed by the characters in the movie. In addition, it was found the most dominant directives used is command with 27 (37%) occurences followed by question with 23 (32%) occurences. Both types of directive is the most commonly used because the characters are forced to do a certain task quickly with a limited time to think. That causes they gave command to other and asked question frequently during the emergency situation after several bio-weapon attacks. The least dominant types of directive speech act are found namely; request with 16 (22%) occurences and followed by suggestion with 7 (9%) occurences.

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According to Pearson, J., & Nelson, P. (2000), communication is a process of understanding and sharing of meaning
RESULT The finding of this study the occurence of directive illocutionary act that has been divided into several type of directives
Types of Directive Illocutionary Act Found in The Complex: Lockdown 2020 Movie

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According to Pearson, J., & Nelson, P. (2000), communication is a process of understanding and sharing of meaning. When people communicate with other, they produce an utterance, Norca (2019). People can express their feelings by producing https://traverse.asia/. Through their utterance people can directly deliver their message. Even though using utterances is more efficient, people tend to use utterances with implied meaning in their life communication. Those utterances are aimed to cause a certain effect to the hearer and can perform an action. An utterance that produces a performative action is called speech act

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