Perlocutionary in Twilight (薄暮) Anime Short Film

Abstract

This study aims to analyze perlocutionary verbs in a context. This study is a qualitative descriptive study. The theory used to analyze the data of this study is Alston's theory (1964) in Tarigan (1994) regarding perlocutionary verbs. The data source in this study is an anime short film entitled Twilight (薄暮) in the form of perlocutionary utterances contained in the anime short film. The data collection technique used is the listening and recording technique. The data in this study were analyzed using the referential match analysis technique. The results of the study show that 2 data were obtained for annoying perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for disturbing perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for deceiving perlocutionary verbs, 2 data for embarrassing perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for confusing perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for inspiring perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for recommending perlocutionary verbs, 1 data for convincing perlocutionary verbs.