ILLUCOTIONARY ACTS IN THE MOVIE “TOY STORY 4”

Hidayani, Yuniar Azzizah. 2021. Illocutionary Acts in The Movie ―Toy Story 4.‖
Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts
Education, University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor 1: Dr. Senowarsito, M.Pd.,
Advisor 2: Dr. Dyah Nugrahani, M. Hum.
The objectives of this research are; 1) to find out the types of Illocutionary act
found in the movie ―Toy Story 4,‖ 2) to find out the most dominant type of
Illocutionary act found in the movie ―Toy Story 4,‖ 3) to find out the
contributions of the illocutionary act found in the movie ―Toy Story 4‖ in teaching
English. The methodology which is used in this research is descriptive qualitative
method where the researcher presents the result of the research in the form of
description. In collecting the data, in collecting the data of this research, the
documentary analysis was chosen to be used by the writer by following some
procedures; downloading the movie, watching the movie, reading the script
repeatedly, finding illocutionary acts, taking the collected illocutionary act into
the note. In analyzing the collected data, descriptive Analysis Technique was
applied by the writer. Based the result of the research, it is shown that there are
the entire five types of illocutionary acts. From the total 417 utterances which
contain illocutionary act, there were 164 utterances belong to assertive, 163
utterances belong to directive, 66 utterance belong to expressive , 23 utterances
belong to commissive, and 1 utterance belong to declarative illocutionary act, the
most dominant type of illocutionary acts which are performed by the main
characters of the movie ―Toy Story 4‖ – Woody & Bo Peep – are assertive (39,33
% out of 100%), and directive (39,09% out of 100%). In addition, the result of
this research can be contributed as a teaching media in teaching English.
Keyword: Pragmatics, Speech act, Illocutionary acts, Movie