ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN "PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM" MOVIE

INDRIYANI, RENI (2012) ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN "PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM" MOVIE. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

Movie is one kind of entertainment which interesting to follows. This is one of theways to express and share feeling or message from people to others in their life. Thisstudy is made to analyze the speech acts used in "Princess Protection Program" movie.The research problems of the study are to fmd out and analyzed the variations of thespeech acts and the categories of illocutionary acts used in the movie dialogue. Theresearcher uses a descriptive qualitative method which is done by classifying andanalyzing those objects. From the research, the researcher found that the movie isunderstood easily because the literary elements are clear and most of utterances from thatdialogue include direct speech act which are looked from the syntactic form and literalspeech act which are looked from what people mean is same with the utterances or notand then most of the Illocutionary act are include of "directive category". In conclusion,studying, analyzing and understanding speech act is important because it can makepeople understandable about the real meaning of what other people means in their speechand it can be used in our daily life.

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