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AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

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Fahmiati Nita, 2015 : AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Advisor : Moch. Maskuri M.Pd.
Key Words :Speech acts, Locutionary acts, Illocutionary acts, Perlocutionary acts

Speech act is a field of linguistics which analyzes language phenomena. Speech act could be found in utterances of movie. Here, the writer chooses film ?Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen? as object of research. The aims of this research is to find the type of locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts used by the main characters in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
The descriptive qualitative method is used to conduct this research. This research describes and explains speech acts used by the main characters of the film. The data were taken from Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen movie. In collecting data, the writer uses the following procedures, 1) the writer watch the movie, 2) search the script, 3) reading the script, 4) select the data and clasifies them. In analysis data, the writer use the following procedures, 1) selecting the data, 2) finding the speech acts used by the main characters, 3) analyzing the type of locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts used by the main characters 4) describing the type of speech acts used by the main characters in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen . The data were presented and analyzed by using speech act theory proposed by Austin for locutionary acts, John Searle theory for illocutionary acts and Austin theory for perlocutionary acts.
The writer found 3 types of locutionary acts that is 115 rhetic acts, 22 phatic acts, and 5 phonic acts. For types of illocutionary acts, the writer found 64 directives, 50 representatives/assertives, 12 expressives, 9 commisives, and 2 declaratives.and then for perlocutionary acts, the writer found 23 convincing, 7 ensuring and relieving, 5 persuading, 8 explaining, 3 satisfying and prohibiting, 2 scaring and surprising, 33 utterance that getting the adressee to do something and each 1 utterance of deterring, forcing, insulting, exciting, satisying, guessing, mystifying, and quipping.

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Tuban : Unirow., 2015

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