TYPES OF SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN LUCA MOVIE

Abstract

This study aims to find out the pragmatics speech act classification performed by the main character in the movie titled Luca following through the framework of Searle (1983). Here, this research used a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data provided. From the data, the researcher discovered 59 utterances in the first of 10 minutes which is spoken by the main character that contain four out of five speech acts by Searle’s theory (1983). In this study, the result shows as expressive holds the top among all the speech acts types with the 26 data found (44%). The other speech acts show representative as the runner up with 20 data found (34%), the commissive holds the third position with 7 data found (12%), while the directive comes with the fourth position with 6 data found (10%), and lastly the declaration speech act comes with the last position with zero data (0%). From this result, we can take a line that the main character’s development in Luca movie is shaped to be a friendly person and builds the mood of the movie that the main character here is living a fearful life and a world of obey behind his family in the beginning of the movie.