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1. Introduction
Language cannot be separated from everyday activity because its power in
communication, where it doesn’t only deliver an utterance but it requires an act as the
response. Speech act is the theory underlays that act of communication which is
developed by Austin and classified by Searle. That theory becomes the tool of this
analysis because that is what we mostly face unconsciously every day though that is
the key of interactions going fluently. As the model of the human communication,
movie consists of conversations and actions which obviously contain speech act that
the audience need to grasp. Therefore, this paper is going analyze the speech act in the
movie entitled “Toy Story 3”.
2. Discussion
Speech act can be analyzed on three level; locutionary, illocutionary, and
perlocutionary which represent the utterance and its action as the effect. Besides, it has
five categorized which mean the purpose of the utterance; representative, directive,
commissive, declarative, and expressive, that brings a certain function of each. Below
are the examples taken from the movie for each classification.
3. Conclusion
Based on the data above, we know that conversations in Toy Story 3 movie
contains all of the speech act categories. This is because the utterances happen in
our everyday interaction.
4. References
Poghosyan, Mariam. Indirect Speech Act in English. From:
http://www.academia.edu/5048335/Indirect_Speech_Acts_in_English.
Ramayanti, Dilla and Marlina, Leni. 2018. The Analysis of Types Illocutionary Acts in
Tangled Movie, English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts
Universitas Negeri Padang: E-Journal of English Language and Literature
Volume 7 No.1.
Fitria, Tira Nur. 2015. Analysys of Speech Act in Doraemon “Stand by Me” Movie,
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. From:
https://www.academia.edu/29900870/ANALYSIS_OF_SPEECH_ACT_IN_D
ORAEMON_STAND_BY_ME_MOVIE