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Essay On American Pie 5

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2.1 Literature Review
In this chapter, there are some previous study taken from international journals and undergraduate thesis, criticized by the researcher which is contribute to this study us well.
The first study criticized is an international journal of language learning and applied linguistic World (IJLLALW) entitled “Expressive Speech Act of Judges’ Narratives in X-Factor Indonesia Talent Show On Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI): A Pragmatic Study" was written by Pradipta Wulan Utami, Nani Dharmayanti and Sugeng Riyanto (2013). This journal tends to find out the types of expressive speech act of judges’ narrative and politeness strategies and sub strategies used in X-Factor Indonesia talent show broadcasted by Rajawali Citra …show more content…

This study aims to explain the types of directives and expressive illocutionary acts that appear in the film and explain the context of situation from a phrase. Data from this study were taken from the film dialogue 'American Pie 5; The Naked Mile '. American Pie 5 is a romantic comedy film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Joe Nussbaum. The film was chosen because in the film dialogue contains many illocutionary acts which includes directive and expressive illocutionary acts. Data collected by writing, record and classify such conversations based on directive and expressive type illocutionary acts. The main theory used in this research is the theory of Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts by Searle (1979) as well as supporting theory of Ethnography of Communication theory by Hymes (1974). As the result found that there are three types of directive acts ordering, inviting and advise, five types of expressive acts are blaming, apologizing, praising, congratulating and thanking by Searle (1979) found in the film dialogue 'American Pie 5 ' and influenced by the context of situation. It can be said that this thesis has the most influence for the researcher. The researcher intends to redefine the existing discussion through the Inside Out movie with the context of different situations. …show more content…

The study of language action or speech act in the film Donnie Brasco. This study is researching about the expressive illocution acts used in the conversation between the main character in this film that is Donnie and Lefty. This research data is taken from this film and research starting from watching the movie record the script spoken by both main characters. After that classify which is included in expressive illocutionary acts. The theory used is the theory of Searle (1969) to determine which including expressive illocutionary acts in a conversation in the film Donnie Brasco. As the result, expressive Illocutionary Acts in the film Donnie Brasco more found thanking than Apologizing. The advantages are submission on the discussion is very good and clear. In the discussion section the author also connects expressive illocutionary acts that are related to the context situations in the movie scene, but it would be better if the author provides the theoretical basis used in aligning the context of situations and circumstances to present a concrete

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