Directive illocutionary acts in the miracle worker movie

Main Author: Dian Septiani
Format: Bachelors
Terbitan: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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Daftar Isi:
  • In this thesis, the writer intended to know the types of directive illocutionary act which occurred directly or indirectly in the movie of The Miracle Worker movie. There might be some actions behind the words that someone utters in their conversation. The purpose of this research was to find out a directive illocutionary act which occurs in the movie script of The Miracle Worker movie. The writer used qualitative method and bibliography technique to collect the data which were taken from the movie script of The Miracle Worker movie. The writer employed herself to collect the data by watching the movie, reading the script movie, and analyzing the speech act contained in the script using Searle theory. From the research questions, the result of this research showed there are seventeen types of directive illocutionary act that the researcher found in the script of The Miracle Worker movie. The two of seventeen data conveyed directly and the rests data were conveyed indirectly