The Analysis Of Illocutionary Act Made By The Main Character Of Super 8 Movie And Its Application In Teaching Speaking To Eleventh Grade Students Of Senior High School

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.