The Analysis of Performative Utterances in the Movie Script Captain America: Civil War and Its Application to Teach Speaking at the Tenth Grade for Senior High School

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.