Abstract
AbstractThe current study entitled Directive Illocutionary Acts with Special Reference to Pitch Perfect aims to analyze the type of the modes of utterance and the forces of the illocutionary acts found in the Pitch Perfect movie. The current study used the dialogues taken from the Pitch Perfect movie as the data. First, the movie was watched and the script was downloaded. While reading the script, the potential data were noted. Furthermore, the data were selected and the relevant ones were analyzed. The data were analyzed using two main theories; the speech act theory by John R. Searle (1969) and the theory of context of situation proposed by Halliday (1989). The theory proposed by John R. Searle was used to identify whether or not the data were directives illocutionary acts. In addition, the theory proposed by Halliday was used to analyze the forces of the modes of utterances.Based on the analysis, it was found that directives illocutionary acts could be performed in three modes; declarative, interrogative and imperative under the dictum “I want you to do something”. There were ten data in declarative mode, ten data in interrogative mode and 5 data in imperative mode had been analyzed. The forces of the modes of utterance found were commanding, inviting, requesting, advising and begging.
Highlights
Speech act is one of the sub divisions in pragmatics
To classify the data based on the type of illocutionary acts and find one which was directive illocutionary act, the speech act theory proposed by John R
The procedures of the presentation of the result of data analysis are as follows: a) The modes, dictum, forces and the types of illocutionary acts are put in the table. b) it is explained further descriptively. c) The analysis and the interpretation of the illocutionary forces are explained further descriptively by applying the theory of context of situation proposed by Halliday (1989)
Summary
It is an act that speaker performs when they are making an utterance. Searle (1969:16) stated that “the reason for concentrating the study of speech acts is this: all linguistics communication involves linguistics acts. Austin (1955:94) proposed that there are three things we do when we use language in communication. He classifies the three types of speech acts, those are: the act of saying something (locutionary), what one does in saying it (illocutionary) and what one does by saying it (perlocutionary). Illocutionary acts have an “effect” on the hearer, or it can be said that the hearer understands the speaker utterance
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