AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED BY A MAIN CHARACTER IN “AKEELAH AND THE BEE” MOVIE BY DOUG ATCHISON

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Azizah, Nuril (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED BY A MAIN CHARACTER IN “AKEELAH AND THE BEE” MOVIE BY DOUG ATCHISON. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Illocutionary acts is the acts that refers to speaker’s intention in uttering the words. In this research, the writer analyzes illocutionary acts used by the main character “Akeelah and The Bee”, Movie by Doug Atchison. This research focuses on Illocutionary acts. It identifies types and context of illocutionary acts used by Akeelah as the main character to answer the problems of this study: (1) What are types of illocutionary acts appeared on Akeelah’s utterances as the main character of “Akeelah and the Bee” Movie by Doug Atchison? (2) What is the context of illocutionary acts that appeared on Akeelah’s utterences as the main character of “Akeelah and the Bee” Movie by Doug Atchison? The writer takes the types and the context of situation of illocutionary acts as the problem of the study. She uses Searle’s theory (1979) to identify the types of illocutionary acts and theory of context by Hymes (1964) to answer the second of problem statements.
This study is designed with using descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data because it describes and explains illocutionary acts used by Akeelah which describes the types and the context in Akeelah’s utterances. In the data findings present that there are four types of illocutionary acts that is found in this study; directive, assertive, expressive, and commissive. One of them is found mostly is directive in Akeelah’s utterances. The writer also finds the context of illocutionary acts; the participants (speaker/hearer), the setting (place/time), the event and the topic from which appeared on Akeelah’s utterances. In every utterances, there is context.
The writer hopes this study would be benefit to other researchers in the same study. She also gives some suggestion for other researcher who is interested in analyzing the same study or another theory, so they find different result.

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Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Additional Information: Mohammad Kurjum
Creators:
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Azizah, NurilUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Subjects: Bahasa Inggris
Kesusastraan > Kesusastraan Inggris
Keywords: Speech Acts; Illocutionary Acts; Akeelah and the bee; Movie
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Mr. Hanafi
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2015 08:25
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2015 08:25
URI: http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/2544

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