STUDY ON ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS EMPLOYED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE MOVIE "ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS"
| Main Author: | PITALOKA, YUKE SILVIA AGUSTIRA |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2011
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/30972/1/jiptummpp-gdl-s1-2011-yukesilvia-23456-BAB%2BI.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/30972/2/jiptummpp-gdl-s1-2011-yukesilvia-23456-Pendahul-n.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/30972/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Language plays an important role in serving human affairs. In general, the value of language is to share knowledge, ideas, and belief. Speech acts give people an idea about the power of language. It allows people to realize that they can perform many communicative functions by means of the language, for instance suggesting someone, ordering someone to do something, express feeling to someone and many more. Therefore this research was focused on the second dimension of speech acts that is illocutionary acts. It is because illocutionary acts can be classified into several kinds and each kind has a function and a purpose meaning. This study aimed at analyzing Illocutionary acts Employed by The main Characters of The Movie "Alvin and The Chipmunks". It answered the following research problems: 1) What are the types of illocutionary acts used by the main characters of the movie "Alvin and the Chipmunks"? 2) How are the illocutionary acts performing in the utterances of conversations by the main characters of the movie "Alvin and the Chipmunks"? This study used descriptive qualitative research design to know the types of illocutionary acts, and how are the illocutionary acts performing in the utterances of conversations by the main characters of the movie "Alvin and the Chipmunks". The research object of this study is Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. This study analyzed all of utterances by the conversations among main characters which are dealing with illocutionary acts. After analyzing the data, the researcher concluded that there were four types of illocutionary acts found in the conversation among the main characters, they are 18 utterances that can be classified into representatives illocutionary acts, 41 utterances that can be classified into expressives illocutionary acts, 87 utterances that can be classified into directives illocutionary acts, and 6 utterances that can be classified into commissives illocutionary acts. The researcher also found that the most utterances used by the main characters of the movie "Alvin and the Chipmunks" was direct form than indirect form. They were 133 utterances used direct form and 19 utterances used indirect form in uttering the sentences.