THE STUDY OF SPEECH ACTS THE "BODY OF LIES" THE MOVIE

HANDAYANI, JATI (2012) THE STUDY OF SPEECH ACTS THE "BODY OF LIES" THE MOVIE. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

Jati Handayani's graduating paper title is "The Study of Speech Act in 'Body ofLies' the Movie". The objectives of her research are the speech act in the "body ofLies" movie script. The problems of this research are types of speech act andSearle's categories of illocutionary act. There were caused by different factors ofculture as the setting of the film. Their greeting influenced how the actorsconverse one another when they say a polite greeting a make a conversation.These caused the actors conversation a different type of speech. The data weretaken by script of the film. The writer gets the main data from theBody of lies"ithe' movie script and secondary data taken from books. The collected data areianalyzed by documentation method. From the researches are got some findingtypes of speech act like directness, literalness, and directness and literalness in thei'.'~Body of Lies" the movie. Besides, the findings are Searle's categories ofillocutionary act such as representative, directive, commissive, expressive, anddeclaration.

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