THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT USED IN "AIR FORCE ONE" MOVIE SCRIPT

Zumaroh, Siti (2012) THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT USED IN "AIR FORCE ONE" MOVIE SCRIPT. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

This study is mainly aimed to describe the speech acts form of the utteranceamong the character in Air Force One movie script. The researcher uses adescriptive qualitative method to classifying and analyzing the utterance. Afterinvestigating the utterance in this script, the writer found several findings on it.First, the utterances in this script can be analyzed in speech act types. Speech actitself has two main form; directness and literalness. Directness is about thesyntactical form and the literalness about the meaning appropriate or not with theutterance. Second, those utterances also can be investigated according to theSearle's category of illocutionary acts. The categories are representatives,directives, commisives, expressive, and declaratives. The main reason peoplestudy about speech acts is to understanding what people means when they makeutterances and to decrease miss understanding about the meaning.

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