Directive speech acts found in “13 Reasons Why” serial movie by Joseph Incaprera.

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Widodo, Ary Teguh (2019) Directive speech acts found in “13 Reasons Why” serial movie by Joseph Incaprera. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis presents directive speech acts found in “13 Reasons Why” serial movie It analyzes the directive utterances used by the characters in the movie. This study has two research problems. First is what are the directive speech acts that appear in “13 Reasons Why” Serial Movie and the second is what are the functions of directive speech acts in “ 13 Reasons Why” Serial Movie. The researcher applied descriptive qualitative design. The data of this research is of serial movie transcript. The main theory which was used in this research is directive speech act that explained by Keith Allan (1986) on the book of “Linguistic Meaning:Volume Two”. The result of this research shows that the researcher found 41 utterances that produced by the characters of the movie that contains of directive speech act. There are two utterances with request characteristic, eight utterance with requirement characteristic, three data of prohibitive , two data of permissive characteristic, six data of advisories characteristic. This research also reveals the function of directive speech act. The function of utterances that included on request characteristic in order to convey speaker wants to the hearer to do something. Then, question speech act were appear when the speaker want to ask something to the hearer. The function of requirement speech act is to require the hearer to do act. Prohibitive speech act is to prohibits the hearer from doing an act. Permissive speech act is to permits the hearer before to do something. Function of advisories is to advises the hearer to do something but the speaker intends the utterance to be taken as sufficient reason for the hearer to do.