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Firdausi, Nabila Wardah Azzahro (2024) Directive acts as manipulative strategy in Jeffrey Dahmer murder acts in the series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
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Abstract
Understanding language is essential for humans to communicate in order to be careful to avoid wrong actions when making or listening to utterances. Unfortunately, sometimes, these utterances lead to negative things, such as manipulation, not even criminal ones. A biographical series entitled “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)” shows the use of speech leading to criminal acts. This study aims to analyze the types of directive acts used by Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer in the series to his interlocutors, which also his victims in four episodes that represent the murder acts. The researcher investigates two problems: 1) What are the directive acts used by Jeffrey Dahmer to his victims in the Netflix series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”?; 2) How does Dahmer use directive acts to manipulate his victims? The analysis was carried out using a qualitative descriptive method following the directive acts theory by Searle (1979). The research data was in the form of utterances by the main character of the series. Data collections were done by watching the series and writing the dialogues, which followed by identifying the data that considered as directive act. Then, the researcher analyzed the data using Illocutionary Force-Indicator Devices (IFIDs) to help determining the context of the directive act data. The research results show that Dahmer used seven types of directive act as manipulative strategy to influence his victims to follow him to the place where he attempted his murder. The twenty-eight directive utterances obtained are identified as ten asking acts, ten ordering acts, one begging act, two praying acts, one pleading act, one inviting act, and three advising acts. Dahmer used the directive act in coercive way to convey his murder plan and non-coercive way to persuade his victims. The function of his directive acts is to restrain his interlocutors and to remain under his surveillance by using the power. The existence of power in directive acts can make a criminal able to give control and manipulate the victim and show the power dynamics inside the communication that damaging the victims as interlocutors.
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| Subjects: | Kriminologi Film Linguistik |
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| Keywords: | biography series; directive act; illocutionary act; Jeffrey Dahmer; manipulative; coercive manipulation; non-coercive manipulation | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris | ||||||||||||
| Depositing User: | Nabila Wardah Azzahro Firdausi | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2025 07:39 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2025 07:39 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/75489 |
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