Illocutionary Acts In Alice In Wonderland Movie Script

Abstract

This study deals with illocutionary act in the Alice in Wonderland movie script. The objectives of the study were to categorize the types of illocutionary act in this script, to find out the most dominant type and the reason of the illocutionary acts are realized in this movie script. This research was carried out by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by browsing and watching the movie. Then, the researcher read the movie script to find out the data or utterances illocutionary acts. The techniques to analyze the data used the theory of Miles and Huberman (1994). The first is Data Reduction, the data was chosen by identifying and classifying the type of illocutionary acts. Next, Data Display the researcher described data by tabulating of the types of illocutionary acts into table. And the last was drawn of the conclusion and verification. The conclusion can be able to answer the formulation of the problem. Finally, the researcher found the reason of illocutionary acts are realized in the movie script and taking the percentage to get the most dominant the types of illocutionary act realized. There were 58 item of illocutionary act are realized in Alice in Wonderland movie script. The findings showed that there were five types of illocutionary acts found in Alice in Wonderland movie script, they are assertives, directives, commissive, expressive and declaratives. Followed by the most dominant type is Assertives with the amount of 36 (62.1%), Directives with the amount of 12 (20.7%), Commissives with the amount of 5 (8.6%), Expressives with the amount of 4 (6.9%), Declaratives with the amount of 1 (1.7%) found in the movie script. The reason of the most dominant one because this movie is fantasy advanture genre, there are a lot of utterances to be used to express what the cast said like command, asking, state, offering that why illocutionary acts are realized in this movie script.