A DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT IN THE BLIND SIDE MOVIE BY JOHN LEE HANCOCK

Abstract

A speech act is an act performed by saying something. This study aims : 1) to find_out_the
types of locutionary act, 2) to find out the types of perlocutionary act, and 3) to find out the
types of illocutionary act in The Blind Side movie by John Lee Hancock. Moreover, this study
concerned on the use of directive speech act. The researcher used qualitative method with the
type of a library research to describe and analyze the utterances that consisted of speech act.
The method of collecting data is non-participant observation and documentation. Interactive
model data of analysis used to analyze the data. The result of this study showed that : 1) there
were 227 utterances consisted of locutionary act which had no types, 2) there are 227
utterances consisted of perlocutionary act which had no types and 3) there are 227 utterances
consisted of illocutionary act which included asserives, declaratives, commisives, expressives
and declaratives. Furthermore, the writer found 131 utterances consisted of directive speech
act which had 31 of requirements, 64 of questions, 20 of requestives, 6 of prohibitives, 3 of
permissives and 7 of advisories. From the result of this research, the questions types in
Directive Speech Act was the most dominant used by major and minor character as the
speakers.
Keywords : Locutionary Acts, Perlocutionary Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Directive
Speech Act, A Qualitative Research