Abstract:
Language is very important in interaction among people around the
world. Language is a system for expressing meaning through communication. The
utterances between characters can be used as one of linguistics studies is
Pragmatics. In daily communication, every speech that is produced or uttered by
the characters called as speech act. Performative utterance is one of them kinds of
speech act. Performative are used to help us to understand meaning which uttered
by the speaker.
This study used descriptive qualitative because the researcher would like
to describe about. The objective of this study is to identify types of performative
utterances found in movie script Captain America: Civil War and applying the
types in teaching speaking. The data analysis is from the movie script Captain
America: Civil War. The researcher used documentation method to collect the
data and uses takes some steps. First, watching the movie. Second, searching and
downloading from the internet. Third, reading the movie script to observe
performative utterance. Fourth, selecting the data which containing performative
utterance. In analyzing data, the researcher takes some steps such identification,
codes the data, categorizing, describe and examine, and then draw the result.
Based on the analysis, the result of this study shows that there are five
types of performative utterances found in movie script Captain America: Civil
War. There 3 verdictives, 27 exercitives, 10 commissives, 10 behabitives, and 10
expositives. Verdictives is 5 %, exercitives is 45%, commissives is 17%,
behabitives is 17%, and expositives is 16%. The last is the applications of
performative utterances in movie script Captain America: Civil War in teaching
speaking. The researcher hopes that this thesis will be useful for the students, the
teachers, and the readers to understanding performative utterance and to increase
speaking skill.
