Abstract:
The study is about speech acts in Aquaman movie. The objectives of the study to
find out the types inrequesting of speech act, to find out the most dominant type of
requesting speech acts, and to find out the reason of the most dominant type of
requesting speech acts used in the Aquaman movie. This research was carried out
by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by browsing the
movie from the internet, downloading the movie from the internet, watching the
movie more than once, and transcribing the script of the movie. There were the
duration movie of 161 minutes was taken as the source of data in this study, the
technique used to analyze the data obtained was by identifying the data which
collected from the dialogue, finding out the types of speech act category and then
the most dominant type of speech acts categories in the script of the movie. There
were two types of requesting of speech act used in the Aquaman movie. It was
found that there are positive politeness with amount of 8 and negative politeness
with amount of 12.The most dominant type of requesting of speech act in the
Aquaman movie script is negative politeness, because the speaker in the main
character has many utterances about requesting negative to the listener
