PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS ON COMMISIVE SPEECH ACT IN A MOVIE

Authors

  • Nguyen Van Thao Faculty of Philology, Hanoi Pedagogical University 2, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam
  • Primbon Martua Purba Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, English Education Department Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Indonesia
  • Herman Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, English Education Department Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Indonesia

Keywords:

Pragmatics, Commisive, Movie, Illocutionary Act

Abstract

The goals of this study are to examine the many types of commisive in the film Papillon and to identify the most prevalent commisive categories. The researcher employs Searle's theory and the context of the scenario in order to respond to the study questions. This is a qualitative study that uses content or document analysis. The film Papillon is the topic of this investigation. The data came from a sequence in the Papilon film, which included the commisive. To collect data, the researcher downloaded the film "Papillon" from www.lk21.com, watched it several times, looked up the script on the internet, watched it again, tried to understand the story, collected character utterances from the script on the movie, identified the data based on the type of commisive, and explained the meaning found. Following the data collection, the researcher analyzed the data using the following steps: watching Papillon on www.lk21.om and finding the Papillon movie script on Google from the identified, researcher categorized the data into types of illocutionary acts from the Papillon movie script, researcher defined appropriate and omitted inappropriate utterances from the data above, described and analyzed the c The following are the study's findings: All six of Searle's forms of commisive are present in the Papillon film. Promise consists of three data (12 percent), offer consists of four data (16 percent), threat consists of five data (20 percent), guarantee consists of seven data (28 percent), volunteer consists of two data (8 percent), and refuse consists of four data (16 percent). As a percentage result, the guarantee is the most dominant among the other sorts. In the second position, there is a threat, and in the third place, there is a volunteer.

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Published

2021-07-24

How to Cite

Nguyen Van Thao, Primbon Martua Purba, & Herman. (2021). PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS ON COMMISIVE SPEECH ACT IN A MOVIE. European Journal of Humanities and Educational Advancements, 2(7), 70-74. Retrieved from https://scholarzest.com/index.php/ejhea/article/view/1093

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