AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT AS FOUND IN THE MOTHER MOVIE

Febriana, Vina and Yanti, Yusrita (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT AS FOUND IN THE MOTHER MOVIE. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

"The Mother" is a movie about deadly attackers, in which the mother, who is an assassin emerges from hiding to save her daughter, whom she abandoned earlier in life. Most of action movie suggest how they usually being made, and this one is no exception, where a lot of directive speech act can be found. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method. This research uses the theory of Searle (1976) and Cutting (2021). The purpose of this study is to find the types of directive speech acts found in The Mother movie, while also looking for the strategies used in the directive speech act that found in The Mother movie. Based on the findings of this study, it has been observed that the characters in the movie generated a total of 50 utterances classified as directive speech acts. Furthermore, the analysis focuses on 30 speech acts, which comprise 7 instances of requesting, 8 instances of suggesting, 8 instances of commanding, and 7 instances of asking. Additionally, this study reveals that there exists a total of 19 direct speech act strategies and 11 indirect speech act strategies. From all the data collected, the writer found that the speech act of request and speech act of suggestions dominates the movie “The Mother” (2023). While on the other hand, 19 direct strategies also used often compared to the indirect speech act strategies.

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