An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts Found in The Movie “Toy Story 4”

Yuniar Azzizah Hidayani, Senowarsito Senowarsito, Dyah Nugrahani

Abstract


The object of this study is a movie called “Toy Story 4.” The data of this study are the utterance of the main characters of this movie who are Woody and Bo Peep. This study are aimed to find the types of illocutionary act found in the movie based on the theory which belongs Searle , to find the most dominant type of illocutionary act which are performed by the main characters of the movie, and to find the contribution of the result of the study in teaching English. This study utilized descriptive qualitative method. Based the result of the research, it is shown that there are five types of illocutionary acts. From the total 417 utterances which contain illocutionary act, there were 164 utterances belong to assertive, 163 utterances belong to directive, 66 utterance belong to expressive, 23 utterances belong to commissive, and 1 utterance belong to declarative illocutionary act. The dominant type of illocutionary acts which are performed by the main characters of the movie “Toy Story 4” – Woody & Bo Peep – are assertive (39,33 % out of 100%), and directive (39,09% out of 100%). In addition, the result of this research can be contributed as a teaching media in teaching English.


Keywords


Pragmatics, Illocutionary act, Toy Story 4, Teaching English

Full Text:

PDF

References


Alreza, E. R., Muhammad, N., Nita, M. V. (2019). An Illocutionary Acts in Yes, We Can Speech by Barack Obama. Jurnal Ilmu Budaya Vol 3 (1).

Amelia, F, AY Firdaus. (2018). Speech Act of Requests Found in Different Rating Film. Academic Journal Prespective: Education, Language, and Literature 6 (2), 126-143.

Austin, J.L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words. New York: Oxford University Press.

Chairani, M., Dedi, S., Mei, H. (2020). Illocutionary and perlocutionary acts on Youtube Videos Employed by Niana Gerrero. Journal of English Education and Teaching 4 (3), 413-430.

Della, F., Barnabas, S. (2018). An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts by Searle Theory in “Sleeping Beauty” Movie Script. Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) 2 (1), 22-27.

Fitriani, S. S, Diana, A., Fitria, S. (2020). An analysis of illocutionary acts in fantasy movie. Studies in English Language and Education 7 (1), 170-180.

Irawanto, Budi. (1999). Film, Ideologi dan Militer; Hegemoni Militer dalam Sinema Indonesia. Yogyakarta: Media Pressindo.

Kamajaya, G. P., Setianingsih, N. K. A. I., & Antari, N. M. S. (2017). Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts in the Movie Script Entitled “GBGB.” Jurnal Humanis, 19 (1), 173-179.

Koeger, Paul R. (2018). Analyzing meaning: An Introduction to semantics and pragmatics (Textbooks in Language Sciences 5). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Kordak, Alfrits. (2018). Tindak Ujar Ilokusi Dalam Novel “The Guardian” Karya Nicholas Sparks. Jurnal Elektonik Fakultas Sastra Universitas Sam Ratulangi 2 (2).

Kurniati, DPY. (2016). Modul Komunikasi Verbal Dan Non-Verbal. Denpasar: Universitas Undayana: Fakultas Kedokteran.

Laurence R. & Gregory Ward (eds.) (2004). The Handbook of Pramatics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Levinson, S,C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Margono, S. (2010). Metodologi Penelitian Pendidikan. Jakarta: PT. Rineka Cipta.

Mey, J. (1993). Pragmatics. Oxford: United Kingdom.

Mufiah, N. S., & Rahman M. Y. N. (2019). Speech Acts Analysis of Donald Trump’s Speech. PROJECT (Professioonal Journal of English Education), 1 (2), 125-132.

Paltridge, B. (2012). Discouse Analysis (2nd ed.). London, UK: BloomsBury.

Primasari, W. (2014). Heroisme Amerika dalam film. Makna:Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, Bahasa, Budaya 4 (2), 35-53.

Rahayu, F. N., Arifin, M. B., Ariani, S. (2018). Illocutionary Act In The Main Characters’ Utterances In Mirror Mirror Movie. Ilmu Budaya 2 (2).

Saifudin, A. (2018). Konteks Dalam Studi Linguistik Pragmatik. Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Budaya 14(2), 108-117.

Searle, J. R. (1969). Speech Acts; An essay in the philosophy of language (vol. 626). Cambridge: University press.

Searle, J. R. (1979). Expression and Meaning: Studies in The Theory of Speech Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sugiyono. (2019). Metode Penelitian Kuantitatif Kualitatif dan R&D. Bandung: Alfabeta.

Thomas, Jenny. (1995). Meaning In Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics. New York: Addison Wasley Longman Publishing.

W Bublitz, NR Norrick. (2011). Foundations of Pragmatics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyer.

Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.26877/wp.v3i1.10500

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2023 Yuniar Azzizah Hidayani

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Wawasan Pendidikan Journal

ISSN 2807-5714 (Print), ISSN 2807-4025 (Online)

Universitas Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia Semarang
Jl. Sidodadi Timur No. 24 -Dr. Cipto, Semarang

Prasena Arisyanto, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Email: prasenaarisyanto@upgris.ac.id

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.