Direct Illocutionary Act Advantages And Disadvantages

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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Directive Illocutionary Act is an Illocutionary Act that makes the addressee doing something. Directive Illocutionary act helps the addresser to change the situation. Searle (1969) said that directives are intended to produce some effect through action by the hearer. Based on the context, the meaning of directive speech act not only means giving order or command but also means another. Other directive illocutionary acts meanings are to encourage, prohibit, suggest, ask, invite, urge, and so forth. From the analysis of the context of the speech event and imperative verbs, it is found some meanings of directive illocutionary act contained in “Divergent” movie.
3.3.1 Command
The utterance can be classified as giving …show more content…

Tris called him but he did not respond and suddenly shot because he was under the influence of serum, his mind was being controlled by the Erudite.
The bold utterance above refers to a directive speech act that intends to order or command because that utterance has appropriate function to give a command. Tris commanded that Will must stop shooting her and her mother, but he did not respond it because he was affected by the serum and being mind controlled.

3.3.2 Prohibition
In a directive speech act which intends to prohibit, the speaker forbids or does not allow the addressee doing something. Prohibition in English is usually expressed with a negative marker “not” that is attached to the auxiliary verb.
Datum 2
Tris: You don’t have to come with me.
Four: You should go easy, you took a beating.

Context: Tris joined to the Four’s Team. They arranged a strategy to find and capture Eric’s flag. While others were discussing about it, Tris started climbing the Ferris wheel to get a good vantage point to find the flag of another team. Then, Four climbed to follow her because he worried about her after she got …show more content…

They run off but the Dauntless members chased after them and shot at them. Tris runout in the street and soon she was noticed by more Dauntless members, they started shooting, Tris shot back with Natalie joining to help her and they managed to cross the street. The utterance underlined above is a directive speech act that intends to invite in the form of imperative sentence. It can be seen from the use of verb “let’s” as a marker of invitation. Tris intended to invite her mother run together with her to cross the street. They were running from the Dauntless members who wanted to chase them. They were heading to Monroe in the State to meet Tris’s father. 3.3.5 Suggestion
Directive act means to suggest basically is a form of the command to others to do something as the meant of speaker by giving hints or solutions, ways of doing, and so on. Nadar (2009:123) describes the suggestion as an expression of the speakers to make addressee doing something as what the speaker suggests. The meaning of suggestion can be expressed by declarative and imperative sentences. Flor (2005:174-175) explains that the taxonomy of suggestion characterized by the use of modal auxiliary verb “should” and “need to”. Flor (2005) also states that suggestion could use performative verbs like “I suggest that...”, and also in the form of impersonal, such as “it might be better to...”. Some utterances

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