Abstract

Language is a tool for communication. This means that apart from being a communication tool, it is also a channel for formulating intentions, ideas, opinions, giving birth to feelings and making a collaboration. Communication as an opening to extend far beyond the domain of words. Illocutionary acts are actions that are difficult to identify. Not only imparting knowledge to someone, but also doing something. Permissions, requests, offers, promises and other illocutionary behavior are common. Therefore, the writer is interested in conducting a study on the film Sonic the Hedgehoc, and wants to explore the utterances and illocutionary acts contained in the film Sonic The Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehoc was produced in 2020. This film is an animated film adapted from a game. The research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method. The author investigates and evaluates the conversations of the main character Sonic in the film Sonic The Hedgehog. The findings show that, the type of illocutionary act that is often used by Sonic is the type of expressive illocutionary act with a value of 56% with 156 utterances. It can be concluded that the most use of illusion acts in the film "Sonic The Hedgehoc" is expressive.

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