Abstract:
This study deals with the directive speech act in the movie Beauty and
The Beast. The objectives of this study were to describe the types of directive
speech act which were used in the movie Beauty and The Beast to explain how
directive speech act were used in the movie of Beauty and The Beast. The
research used descriptive qualitative method. The data was taken from the script
of the movie. Based on the result of the directive speech act in the movie Beauty
and The Beast, it was found 68 occurrences of the three types of directive spech
act in this research, they were 26 command act occurrences, 22 request act
occurrences and 20 suggestion act occurrences. And the most dominant of the data
was found 26 occurences in command act.
