Abstract:
Many people cannot realize that when they say something; on the other hand,
they also show certain actions. To convey their message successfully, they must
show expressing their minds and their actions. It can take the forms of
illocutionary acts to show something to do for hearers. Illocutionary act is kind of
speech acts. This study uses descriptive research. This research aims to find out
the illocutionary acts in the main character’s utterances, to find out the most
dominant types of illocutionary acts are produced by the main character in Super 8
movie and to describe how the application of the research finding in teaching
speaking at eleventh grade of senior high school.
The data is collected by documentation. The primary data is taken from the
Super 8 movie as the main source of the data. The secondary data is analyzed the
spoken and gesture of main character in Super 8 movie which containing
illocutionary acts. The procedure of analyzing the data begins by analyzing the
types of illocutionary acts of utterances based on Searle’s theory in Cutting and
then applied in teaching speaking.
The result of this study shows that there are four types of illocutionary acts
made by main character in Super 8 movie. Those are representative that consist of
28 utterances (33.7%), commisive that consist of 14 utterances (16.9%), directive
that consist of 21 utterances (25.3%), and expressive that consist of 20 utterances
(24.1%), there are no types of declaration in main character’s utterances. The
application of the result, it is focused on teaching speaking and the part of speech
materials in senior high school.
