AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN THE MOVIE “THE GREATEST SHOWMAN”

Jayanti, Naomi Gita Nafiri. 2019. An Analysis Illocutionary Act in “The Greatest
Showman” Movie . Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of
Language and Ars Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Fitri
Yulianty, S.Pd., M.Pd., Advisor II: Dra. Maria Yosephine W.L, M.Pd. The
objectives of this study are: (1) To identify the types of illocutionary act found in
“The Greatest Showman”, (2) To find out the dominant types of illocutionary act
used in “The Greatest Showman” and (3) To find out the contributions of
pragmatic
The methodology of this study is descriptive qualitative research. The main
sources of this study is movie entitle “The Greatest Showman”
The resulta of this study show that 1) The writer found five type of illocutionary
act, there were representative,directive, expressive, commisive and declarative, 2)
The dominant type of illocutionary act is representative, and 3) This study can be
a reference for the teachers in teaching pragmatics especially speech act. One of
way is using movie because it is evidently found that movie also has a lot of real
examples of speech act
Keywords: “The Greatest Showman” dialogue, illocutionary act.