Abstract:
The directive speech act is a kind of speech act where the speaker intends the
listener to do something. It is a phrase that includes two phrases, speech and act,
and can be categorized into 3 components: locutionary act, illocutionary act and
perlocutionary act. Speech function is divided into 5 sorts: command, question,
suggestion, request and warning. Speech characteristic is a way of providing
thoughts in communicates to make listeners apprehend the thoughts nicely. This
study focuses on directive speech acts in Mulan movie, which are accomplished
through characters. This study aimed to determine the types of Directive Speech
Acts performed by the characters in the movie script. This research is a
conversation script of the characters. This type of research is descriptive
qualitative research. The object of this research is the movie script. The results
showed that there were 5 directive speech acts types found in the Mulan movie.
They were command (40,7%), question (40%), request (10%), suggestion (9%),
warning (0.3%). Command become dominantly used by Mulan as the main
character in “Mulan” movie because command have 47 cases (40.7%). It is the
highest positions in the types of directive speech acts.
