AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN THE SCRIPT OF “THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY” MOVIE

VIRA, ANJALI VITALOCA (2025) AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN THE SCRIPT OF “THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY” MOVIE. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

	PDF Download (4MB)
	PDF Restricted to Repository staff only Download (4MB)

Abstract

ABSTRAK This study deals with illocutionary act in the Dead Poets Society movie script. The objectives of the study were to categorize the types of illocutionary act in this script, to find out the most dominant type. This research was carried out by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by browsing and watching the movie. Then, the researcher read the movie script to find out the data or utterances illocutionary acts. The techniques to analyze the data used the theory of Miles and Huberman (1994). The first is Data Reduction, the data was chosen by identifying and classifying the type of illocutionary acts. Next, Data Display the researcher described data by tabulating of the types of illocutionary acts into table. And the last was drawn of the conclusion and verification. The conclusion can be able to answer the formulation of the problem. Finally, the researcher found the reason of illocutionary acts are realized in the movie script and taking the percentage to get the most dominant the types of illocutionary act realized. There were 542 item of illocutionary act are realized in Dead Poets Society movie script. The findings showed that there were five types of illocutionary acts found in Dead Poets Society movie script, they are Assertives with the amount of 180 (33.21%), Directives with the amount of 273 (50.37%), Commissives with the amount of 9 (1.66%), Expressive with the amount of 80 (14.76%) and Declaratives with the amount of 0 (0%) in the movie script. The reason of the most dominant one because the Dead Poets Society movie is a drama genre where a lot of speech is used to express what is said, such as commands, requests, requesting, pleading, stating, realizing and so on, that why illocutionary acts are realized in this movie script. Keywords: Illocutionary Act, Dead Poets Society Movie Script.

Actions (login required)

View Item