Abstract
Commisive is kind of speech acts that used by the speakers to commit themselves to some future course action. They express the speaker’s attention to do something on some future action. This study concerned on finding out types of commissive speech act used by characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, as well as analyzing the meaning of the utterances. This study applied the theory of pragmatics from Yule (1996) to find out the types of commissive speech act, theory of meaning from Thomas (1995) to analyse the implied meaning and supported by the theory of context of situation from Halliday and Hasan (1989). The data were collected by using observation method and analysed by descriptive qualitative method. The finding is presented in formal and informal way. Our finding shows that there are four types of commisive speech acts which predominantly used by the characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, they are: refusal (12%), warning (48%), promise (12%) and threat (28%). 
 
 Keywords: commissive, speech act, utterance, meaning
Highlights
In a communication, people deliver their thoughts and ideas through speeches in many different ways
This study aims at identifying types of commissive speech act and the implied meaning of the utterances as delivered by the characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2
Our finding shows that there are four types of commissive speech act that predominantly u sed by the characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, they are warning, threat, promise, and refusal
Summary
People deliver their thoughts and ideas through speeches in many different ways. Some issues happened in communication due to misunderstanding between the speaker and the hearer. It is important to know the implied meaning of the utterances in a communication by understanding the topic and context of situation. Pragmatics is the study which belief that what is communicated is more than what is said. It means pragmatics is closely related to the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves (Yule, 1996: 3). What Yule want to emphasize is the meaning that speakers have is more than the words they say
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