Abstract
Movies are brilliant choices to be subjects of discourse analysis since they bear a resemblance to real-life phenomena. Lion of The Desert is one of the movies that actualizes the use of the English language as the dialogue and presents Islamic historical values as its content. Among a myriad of sub-disciplines of discourse analysis, this paper attempts to investigate speech act phenomena in the utterances of Omar Mukhtar, the main character of the movie. The discourse analysis is conducted on his utterances in order to extract the types of speech acts he employs. Primary data sources include the movie video file and its script. We execute several procedural steps of extracting the data, commencing with watching the movie while reading its script; re-watching it to identify the aspects like voice, intonation, and mimics; interpreting, and classifying the types of speech acts in accordance with the classification procedure of John R. Searle's speech act theory. The findings revealed four types of speech acts, namely, representative, directive, commissive, and expressive, being identified and classified in Mukhtar's utterances. The most frequently used type of speech act was representative, which is performed in 56 utterances, followed by a directive act which appears in 53 utterances. Commissive and expressive speech acts emerge in 9 and 7 utterances, respectively.
Highlights
That the use of language in human communication is determined by the condition of society premises is what pragmatics, in general, is about (Mey, 2001)
For the Muslim population the conflict and the battle itself carry out particular religious and ethical dimensions and values, which are widely present in Mukhtar‘s utterances
The analysis revealed some core findings regarding the interpretation of Mukhtar‘s utterances, classification of the speech act, and the most frequent category that appears
Summary
That the use of language in human communication is determined by the condition of society premises is what pragmatics, in general, is about (Mey, 2001). There are two kinds of contexts that influence the interpretation of what humans speak, namely, linguistic and physical contexts (Yule, 2017). The former is attributed to a set of other words used in the same phrases or sentences. If we behold the wordbank‘ written on a building wall in a town, it has nothing to do with a river or abyss. Such instances and the like confirm the significance of the context as the quintessence of pragmatics
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