An Analysis Of Directive Speech Act In Mark Thackeray’s Dialogue In To Sir, With Love Movie

Indra, Dea Puteri (2021) An Analysis Of Directive Speech Act In Mark Thackeray’s Dialogue In To Sir, With Love Movie. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

This research is entitled “An Analysis of Directive Speech Act in Mark Thackeray’s Dialogue in To Sir, With Love Movie”. It was aimed at describing classifications and forms and the reason why Mark Thackeray uttered directive speech act based on Searle’s theory by using descriptive method. The methodology of this research is qualitative method. The source of the data in this research was To Sir, With Love movie script. The data were in Mark Thackeray’s utterances in To Sir, With Love movie. The instrument of this research was documentation. The researcher read, classified and analyzed the utterances using Searle’s theory. The findings show that there are four classifications of directive speech act found in this research; commanding, suggesting, warning and requesting. For the forms; imperative, interrogative and declarative. Based on the data analysis of those four classifications of directive speech acts which found, first, command is the mostly used in Mark Thackeray’s utterance. It appeared 51 times in Mark Thackeray’s utterances. Second, suggestion; it was used 24 times by Thackeray. Third, warning; it appeared 25 times in Thackeray’s utterance. Last, Request; it appeared 32 times in Thackeray’s utterances. For the three forms of directive speech acts which found, first, imperative is mostly used in Thackeray’s utterances. It appeared 71 times in Thackeray’s utterances. Second, declarative; it was used 28 times in Thackeray’s utterances. Last, interrogative; it was used 35 times in Thackeray’s utterance.

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