AN ANALYSIS OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACT USED IN THE VOW (Pragmatics Study)

Main Authors: Nur, Wahyu Pambudi, Kurniawan, Kurniawan, S.S., M.Hum
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2017
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Online Access: http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/769/1/Nur%20Wahyu%20Pambudi.pdf
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  • Keywords: Pragmatics, Speech Act, Commissive, The Vow, Movie This research paper entitled An Analysis of Commissive Speech Act Used in The Vow(Pragmatics Study). The objectives of this study are to describe the forms of commissive speech act used in The Vow and to describe the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary of commissive speech act in The Vow. This research employs the descriptive qualitative research. The data are purposively chosen in order to answer the research question. The subject of the research is a movie. The data of this research are the commissive speech act used in the movie. The first step is that the researcher downloads the movie of The Vow. Then, the second is classifying the data source into some categories based on the theory of commissive. For example: The dialog in the form of promise, refusal, etc. Then, the researcher writes the data into paper sheets. After that, she gives a code to each datum to ensure that the data have been taken properly to analyze. The researcher finds several results (1) the whole data of commissive speech act in The Vow are 19 data that consist of 4 forms of commissive speech act used in The Vow namely threat, promise, refusal and warning. Threat consists of 1 data, refusal consists of 2 data, warning consists of 8 data and promise consists of 8 data. Then, (2) the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech act are found in the forms of commissive speech act as a persuade, suggestion, warning, promise, advice and urging between the speaker and the hearer.