Revealing the types of directive speech acts in “Frozen” movie

Farkhan Akbar Ramadani, Ikmi Nur Oktavianti

Abstract


An understanding of speech acts is necessary for communication because humans will frequently be required to use a variety of speech acts. Directive speech act is a type of speech acts in which the speaker attempts to influence someone else to perform an action; directive speech acts are essential to comprehend; to ensure that no instruction is misinterpreted and communication flows smoothly. This study aims to find out the types of directive speech acts used in Frozen movie. This study uses descriptive qualitative methodology, in which the researcher interprets the utterances that contain the types of directive speech acts in Frozen movie. To collect the research data, the researcher employs the Observation Method. Searle's classification of directive speech acts is used to analyze the data. This study showed that 42 utterances of directive speech acts were identified. There are order (23 utterances or 54.76%), request (12 utterances or 28.57%), and command (7 utterances or 16.66%). It can be concluded that the most dominant type is order. With these results, the study is expected to provide readers with a better understanding of the types of directive speech acts.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12928/iucee2022.v1i2.8992

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