Illocutionary Acts used by Liz Gilbert in "Eat, Pray, Love" Movie

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Putri, Eka Arista (2019) Illocutionary Acts used by Liz Gilbert in "Eat, Pray, Love" Movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Illocutionary act is the language used by the speaker which purposed to make the listener to do something. Illocutionary acts are often used by the people’s communication in daily life. This study aims to analyze various types and functions of illocutionary act on the character Liz Gilbert in “Eat, Pray, Love” movie directed by Ryan Murphy (2010). The researcher applies Searle’s theory to analyze the various type of illocutionary act. Meanwhile, Leech’s theory applies to analyze the various function of illocutionary acts. Besides, the researcher also counts the frequency of each type and function of illocutionary act used by Liz Gilbert. This present research uses qualitative descriptive method to find the results of the research. The researcher starts by analyzing the research subject by coloring the transcript of Liz Gilbert conversation, coding, and then classifying the utterance by type and category of illocution. In this study, the researcher finds 319 data from the data that is uttered by Liz Gilbert. The result shows the type of illocutionary act that appear in Liz Gilbert’s utterances are; assertive 63%, directive 26%, expressive 10%, and commissive 1%. Thus, assertive becomes the most frequently spoken illocution of Liz Gilbert. On the other hand, the researcher also finds the functions of illocutionary acts namely; collaborative 61%, competitive 28%, convivial 7%, and conflictive 4%. Meanwhile, among the function of illocutionary act, collaborative ranked first about 198 data or 61%. Moreover, the researcher hopes, the further researcher could apply the theory of speech acts in other different subjects. Besides that, the researcher also wishes that the next researcher who is interested in speech acts theory could apply the term of speech act in the real communication in daily life. In addition, the researcher suggests for the further researcher is to apply the different method to analyze the type of speech acts and its function.