Die Another Day Analysis

The data analysis result is taken from the analyzing process through data concerning the illocutionary acts found in the movie “Die Another Day”. This chapter consists of two main discussions; the first part is about the analysis of the types of illocutionary acts which occur in this movie. All the types of illocutionary acts were found in the movie “Die Another Day” script. The utterances in movie script were analyzed based on theory proposed by Searle (1976) and supported by Yule (1996) including Representatives, Directives, Commissives, Expressives and Declaratives through looking at the aspects of speech situation. In order to enrich the analysis, the analysis were included by little bit analyzing about the form of Directness (Direct and

Mr Bond?” is identified as representatives illocutionary acts since there is the truthfully of the utterance. That utterance performs action of boasting since the speaker is in an advantageous position and the hearer is in pressed position and the utterance uses indirect speech act by using interrogative sentence. The illocutionary acts means that we form an utterance with some kind of function in mind (Yule, 1996:48). On the other word, in every utterance that we produced it is also another act that performed inside the utterance. The real meaning of the speaker utterance is illocutionary because, the explicit meaning of the speaker utterances is to make the hearer Mr. Bond feel annoyed and afraid because the speaker Colonel Moon already in winning position.
b. The analysis of function of illocutionary acts
Related to the context of situation of illocutionary act, the utterance “And how do you propose to kill me now... Mr Bond?” has several possibilities related to the functions of illocutionary acts itself. The function of the utterance is for boasting. It can be analyzed using theory of Ethnography of Speaking proposed by Hymes (1974) as follows:
1. Setting and

Regarding to Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, boast is a statement in which you express too much pride in yourself or in something you have, have done, or are connected to in some way. Related to the utterance in the conversation above, at that time The Colonel shoots the helicopter where James bond’s friend wait and James bond was directly arrested by the staff or armed forces of Colonel. Therefore, Colonel Moon boasts at James because he knows his cover or exposes the cover of Mr. Bond and there is no friend who will cover him; he is alone. As the result, the utterance above can be considered as the utterance which has the function of