A Pragmatic Analysis of Commissive Speech Acts in Deadpool Movie and Its Application in Teaching Speaking
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2019-09-18
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English Education Program Teacher Training And Education Faculty Purworejo Muhammadiyah University
Abstract
Speech acts perform when a speaker makes utterances. This study aims at finding types
of commissive speech act in Deadpool movie and its application in teaching speaking.
This study used descriptive qualitative research design. In this research, the object was
several main characters in Deadpool movie The the researcher used primary and secondary
data to support the data such as Deadpool movie script .This research took the utterance
found in Deadpool movie focused on types of speech act based on Austin theory.The steps
were downloading the movie, classifying the data source into some categories based on the
theory of commissive. Wrotes the data into paper sheets. After that, she gives a code to each
data to ensure that the data have been taken properly to analyze.
The results of this research shows that there are ten types of commissive speech acts in
Deadpool movie namely Threat. 4 (5.55 %), promise 4 (5.55%) warning 1 (1.38%) refusal 2
(2.77%) offer 8 (11.11%), swear 48 (66.66%) guarantee 1 (1.38 %) vow 3 (4.16%) pledge
planning 1 (1.38%). In this research, commissives speech acts can be applied as a material in
teaching speaking. It can be expression offering and intention to do something. Those are
included in 2013 curriculum in senior high school