A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY AND PERLOCUTIONARY ACTS PERFORMED BY THE CHARACTERS IN COCO MOVIE AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEACHING SPEAKING

Eva Dwi Lestari Puspa Dewi

Abstract


Abstract
This research focuses on the using of illocutionary and the impact of perlocutionary acts by the
characters in Coco movie. Illocutionary and perlocutionary act has become an important thing in
studying language. When people have conversation, sometimes they misinterpret the meaning.
Therefore, they do inappropriate responses. The objectives of this study are (1) to find the types of
illocutionary and perlocutionary acts by the characters in Coco movie and (2) to describe the
application of illocutionary and perlocutionary acts by the characters in Coco movie in teaching
speaking.The researchers use descriptive qualitative because this study aims to analyze the types of
illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. Besides, the form of data is in the word form rather than
number. The research is conducted based on Searle’s theory. The data was collected by finding the
movie, watching the movie, donwloading the script, reading the script, then collecting illocutionary
acts utterances of the characters in movie and the perlocutionary effect. After the data collected, the
researchers analyzed the data based on its types.From the research, the researchers found 5types of
illocutionary acts by the characters of Coco movie are as follows: assertives with 33,3%, directives
with 38%, commisives with 4,1%, expressives with 23,8%, and declaratives with 0,8%. From the
data, the researchers concluded that directives serves the most dominant type of illocutionary found in
the characters of Coco movie. Directives is the most dominant types because potentially represent the
power and the dominance of the speaker. Directives is the speaker who want to get the hearer to do
something. The application of illocutionary and perlocutionary acts by the characters in Coco movie
in teaching learning is to teach speaking of complimenting material in the tenth grade of Vocational
High School. The teacher can use the utterance applied by the characters in Coco movie to teach
speaking.
Keyword: Pragmatic, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts, Coco movie, Teaching Speaking.

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