Speech Acts In The Toba Dreams Movie Script

Abstract

The study is about speech acts in theToba Dreams movie script. The objectives of the study to find out the types of illocutionary acts, to find out the most dominant type of illocutionary acts, and to find out the reason of the most dominant type of illocutionary acts used in the Toba Dreams movie script. 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 131 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 76 illocutionary acts used in the in the Toba Dreams movie script. It was found that there are three types of illocutionary, representative with the amount of 45, commissive with the amount of 6, expressive with the amount 25.The most dominant type of illocutionary acts in the Toba Dreams movie script is representative, because the speaker in the main character has many utterances about report and informing her/his experience or activities