An analysis of directive acts in the Minion: the rise of gru (2022) movie

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Rosyidah, Nailul Oktaviani (2023) An analysis of directive acts in the Minion: the rise of gru (2022) movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to examine the directive speech acts and their functions in the dialog spoken by all characters in the movie “Minion: The Rise of Gru” (2022). This movie is a prequel movie of Despicable Me which tells about the rise of Gru as the main character to become a super villain. In this study, the researcher answers the formulation of the problem in the study (1) the type of directive speech acts spoken by all characters in the movie and (2) the function in each type of directive speech acts spoken by all characters in the movie. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach to get a clear and systematic description of the problem being analyzed. Descriptive research in this analysis is applied to analyze the conversations of all characters in the film script. Data collection is done by identifying all utterances in the movie that contain directive speech in the movie script. All directive utterances were then classified based on their respective types by using the appropriate code in the corresponding text. The analysis continued by identifying the type in each utterance and describing each function of the directive speech type. In the end, the researcher found out what types and functions were found in the utterances produced by all the characters in the movie. The result of the study shows that there are five types of directive speech namely request, command, invitation, advice, and prohibition have been applied in this movie. It also contains several functions of each type which are different depending on how the directive speech is delivered in the movie dialog by the speaker to the listener. The results show that the command type is the most used type in the dialog of the characters in the film, while the invitation type is the least used by the characters in the film.