A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT ON FILM MANUSCRIPT ENTITLE "FREAKY FRIDAY"

MARYANI, PUTRI (2011) A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT ON FILM MANUSCRIPT ENTITLE "FREAKY FRIDAY". Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

One of the ways in expressing and conveying message from people to others intheir life is through movie. In a movie, there is a process of transferring values of thestory of the film from moviemakers to viewers. In this research, the writer tries to classifyand analyze the literary elements, utterances which include types of speech act and thecategories of illocutionary acts which are taken from film manuscript "FREAKYFRIDAY''. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method which is done byclassifying and analyzing those objects. From the research, the researcher found that filmis understood easily because the literary elements are clear and most of utterances fromthat manuscript include direct speech act (when those are viewed from the syntacticform) and literal speech act when those are looked from what people mean exactly samewith the utterances or not and then most of Illocutionary act are include "directivecategory". In conclusion, studying, analyzing and understanding speech act is importantbecause it can make clearer people to understand what other people exactly mean in theirspeech and it can be useful as a part of our knowledge about the rules of language use indaily life. .

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