Illocutionary Acts Uttered by The Main Character in Me Before You Movie

Abstract

This research entitled “Illocutionary Acts Uttered by The Main Character in Me Before You Movie by Thea Sharrock: Apragmatic Analysis”. It is an attempt to find the types of illocutionary acts and the most dominant categories of illocutionary acts in the movie. The data have been taken from the main characters utterences in the movie. The research on this thesis was carried out on descriptive qualitative design by concertraining on utterences which contain illocution. The theory used in this rresearch was taken from Searley’s theory about illocutionary acts classification. The types of Searly’s chategories are assertive or respresentative, directive, commisive, expressive and declarative. There are five clarifications of illocutionary acts founnd in the Me Before You Movie with the total number of illocutionary acts uttered by the main characters uttered by the main characters are 234. It consist of 138 number refer to assertive (respresentative) (58.97%), 47 refer to directive (20.08%), 11 refer to commisive (4.70%), 30 refer to expressive (12.82%) and 8 refer to declarative (3.14%). The dominant categories of Searly’s categories of illocutionary was assertive or respresentative total number 138 (58.97%)