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Smart People Movie Analysis

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The analyzed aspects of illocutionary act in the movie consist of representative, directive, commisive, expressive and declarative. The data collected through several steps which are watching a movie, making transcription in written form, data reduction, display the reduced data, and conclusions. Moreover, reading some literatures that have relation to the movie and the topic of speech act as supporting data. Furthermore, the collected data were being analyzed based on their form and functions of the dialogue in ‘Smart People’ movie in which the utterances occurred. The result of the research showed that there were some aspects of illocutionary act in the movie ‘Smart People’ namely: (a) representative, (b) directive, (c) commisive, (d) expressive, and (e) declaratives. Each aspect consisted of several kinds of utterances by which the plot of the story of the movie created. BASIC CONSIDERATION Understanding the meaning of utterances are not only based on one’s knowledge of lexical and syntax, but also an in-depth understanding of semantic and pragmatic aspects. According to Leech’s (1983:2) explanation, …show more content…

According to Leech (1983:105), the functions of illocutionary act are: 1) competitive. It means that the goal of utterance competitive with a social goal. Moreover, it includes commanding, requesting, demanding, begging, etc. 2) convivial. It means that the goal of utterance is occurred at the same time when the utterance uttered. It includes offering, inviting, welcoming, greeting, thanking, and congratulating. 3) Collaborative. It means that the goal of utterance has no concern to the social intention. It includes demanding, compelling, reporting, announcing, instruction and commanding. And the last, 4) conflictive. It means that the goal of utterance is contradicted to the social intention. It includes: threatening, accusing, cursing, greeting, criticizing, and

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