The Analysis of Speech Acts Found in Kung Fu Panda 3 Film and Its Application in Teaching Speaking in Senior High School

Abstract

Communication has function in connecting some ideas in order to convey information. Not only conveying information, people do communication in order to share their feelings also. When people do communication, they produce some utterances. The utterances spoken here calls speech acts. Speech acts are utterances that serve function in communication. Speech acts make actions that are performed through utterances. This research will explain and describe speech acts found in the characters of a film entitled Kung Fu Panda 3. The goal of this research is to find out the types of speech acts and to explain the application of speech acts found in Kung Fu Panda 3 film in teaching speaking. To analyze the types of speech acts, the researcher uses qualitative research because the researcher would like to describe about the types of speech acts found in Kung Fu Panda 3 film. The object of this research is the utterances spoken by the characters in Kung Fu Panda 3 film. The data of this research is taken from the utterance used by the characters in Kung Fu Panda 3 film and the source of data is the film itself. The data is classified into the types of speech acts. The speech acts performed by the all characters are examined by describing the content and context of the expression. The researcher uses coding data technique to analyze the data. The result of this research shows that there are five types of speech acts in Kung Fu Panda 3 film namely declaratives, representatives, expressive, directives and commissives. There are 607 speech acts found consisting of 2 declarative speech acts (0.3%), 120 representative speech acts (19.8%), 65 expressive speech acts (10.7%), 394 directive speech acts (64.9%) and 26 commisive speech acts (4.3%). The researcher concludes that speech acts found in “Kung Fu Panda 3” film can be applied in functional skills materials in teaching speaking in senior high school.