Analysis of expressive acts used by The main characters in Yes Day The Movie

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Adelia, Bella (2022) Analysis of expressive acts used by The main characters in Yes Day The Movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study examines the kinds of expressive acts used by the main character in the Yes Day movie. This study has two research questions that must be answered, those are: (1) What types of expressive actions are most often used or expressed by the main character, and (2) What is the context of the expressive actions spoken by the characters in the Yes Day movie. This study uses the theory of Searle (1976) for the types of illocutionary expressive acts in researching the movie. This study uses a qualitative approach that is in accordance with a clear and effective description of the topic being researched. Descriptive analysis study is applied to analyse the illocutionary expressions in the main character's conversation through the transcript of the Yes Day movie. The transcription of the Yes Day movie was analysed by using abbreviation code that distinguishes the type of expression. The analysis is continued by analysing the differences in expressive acts with highlights or differentiating expressive types with different colours. The analysis is continued by identifying and classifying the types of expressive acts spoken by the main character. To identify the types of expressive acts, the researcher focussed to the utterances of the main characters in the Yes Day movie, which contained the types of expressive acts that were played or spoken by the main characters in each scene of the Yes Day movie. The results indicate that six types of expressive acts (pleasure thanking, angry, worrying, apologizing, surprised) are found in the Yes Day movie. With the emergence of these six types of expressive acts, the main characters in this movie tend to use or often express feelings of anger and express gratitude. In addition, the researcher also found an expressive type of thanking as the third expressive act that is often used or spoken, especially the main characters in the Yes Day movie. In analysing expressive illocutionary acts, the researcher also only focuses on the two main characters Allison and Carlos who play the role of father and mother of their three children Katie, Ellie and Nando. This means that the main characters often used the expressive acts of “angry” and gratitude, which have the highest number and often appear in the conversation in the Yes Day movie.