COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN THE DOLITTLE MOVIE

Abstract

This study deals with commissive speech act in the Dolittle movie. The researcher collecting all the dialogues of Dolittle movie and starting from English subtitles of script data. Then, the researcher identifying the English text in the dialogue from finding commissive speech acts in the dialogues script by using Searle’s theory (1985). The researcher used the types of commissive speech acts to examine the dialogue from Dolittle movie, namely offer, guarantee, refusal, volunteer and promise. Further, the researcher classifying all the commissive speech acts found in the movie. These are classified into types of commissive speech acts. Finally, the researcher found 55 data from commissive speech acts. It has been found that Promise of commissive speech act has 9 data (16.36%), Guarantee of commissive speech act has 25 data (45.45%), Refusal of commissive speech act has 3 data (5.45%), Threat of commissive speech act has 6 data (10.91%), Volunteer of commissive speech act has 7 data (12.73%), and the last is Offer of commissive speech act has 5 data (9.09%). From the amount of data that has been obtained, the researcher concludes that the most dominant of commissive speech acts is Guarantee of commissive speech act which is 25 data with a percentage of 45.45%.