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ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED IN THE DISNEY MOVIE THE GOOD
DINOSAUR
Anis Elvina Loi Teacher at SMP Negeri 2 Teluk Dalam .
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Abstract This study aimed at finding the types of illocutionary acts and describing the meaning of illocutionary act used in the movie The Good Dinosaur.
This study used the theory of Searle .
This research used descriptive qualitative method and the data collection method was The object of this research was all conversations in the movie The Good Dinosaur that contain types of illocutionary acts.
The result of this research, was were 52 utterances as illocutionary acts.
There were four types of illocutionary acts found in the movie namely: 19 assertives, 17 directives, 8 commissives, and 8 expressives.
There was also found that each utterance of illocutionary act had the different meanings based on the context of the story.
From the results of this study, it can be seen that illocutionary acts are widely used in daily life.
Therefore, understanding the meaning of illocutionary acts is very important for smooth communication.
It is hoped that this research can help English teachers to be able to improve their ability to communicate effectively and understand other cultures so that they can teach students how to use appropriate language, as well as English language learners to be able to better understand the context in speaking.
Keywords: Illocutionary Act.
Good Dinosaur.
Movie Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan jenis-jenis tindak ilokusi dan mendeskripsikan makna dari tindak ilokusi yang digunakan dalam film The Good Dinosaur.
Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Searle .
Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dan metode pengumpulan data adalah dokumentasi.
Objek penelitian ini adalah semua percakapan dalam film The Good Dinosaur yang mengandung jenis-jenis tindak ilokusi.
Hasil dari penelitian ini, terdapat 52 ujaran sebagai tindak ilokusi.
Terdapat empat jenis tindak ilokusi yang ditemukan dalam film tersebut yaitu: 19 asertif, 17 direktif, 8 komisif, dan 8 ekspresif.
Ditemukan juga bahwa setiap Copyright .
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ujaran sebagai tindak ilokusi memiliki makna yang berbeda berdasarkan konteks cerita.
Dari hasil penelitian ini, dapat dilihat bahwa tindak ilokusi banyak digunakan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.
Oleh karena itu, memahami makna tindak ilokusi sangat penting untuk kelancaran komunikasi.
Diharapkan penelitian ini dapat membantu para pengajar bahasa Inggris untuk dapat meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam berkomunikasi secara efektif dan memahami budaya lain sehingga dapat mengajarkan siswa bagaimana menggunakan bahasa yang tepat, serta pembelajar bahasa Inggris untuk dapat lebih memahami konteks dalam berbicara.
Kata kunci:Tindak Ilokusi, film The Good.
Dinosaur speakerAos language by understanding the Introduction Language is a powerful tool that can be context and situation when the speaker used to achieve a variety of goals.
It is important to be aware of the potential impact of our words, and to use them responsibly.
people need to be able to understand what the Vanderveken and kubo .
said speaker means.
To do this, they need to AuLanguage is itself an institution, and it is consider the context of the utterance, or the sufficient to empower speakers to perform situation in which it is spoken.
The study of such declarations as promising to come and how people use language in context is called see someone or ordering someone to leave the Pragmatics is a subfield of roomAy.
Based on that statement, in speaking linguistics that deals with the study of language there must be a meaning and language in context, focusing on how people purpose that you want to convey to the use language in real life situations to convey meaning effectively, as OAokeefe.
Clancy, and When people talk to each other, they are Adolphs .
said Aupragmatic can be using language to perform actions.
For defined as the study of the relationship example, we can use language to request, between context and meaningAy.
order, thank, promise, refuse, state something.
Context is essential for understanding the as a fact, or treat someone in a certain way.
speakerAos intended meaning and the social speaking in everyday life, there are times impact of their words.
There are several when the purpose of our speech is to ask definitions about context.
Mey .
someone to do something or have to do it.
Aucontext is about understanding what things Therefore, the recipient of the speech must be are for.
it also what gives our utterances their able to understand the meaning of the true pragmatic meaning and allows them to be Copyright .
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Example:
Yule.
Aucontext is simply means the Her : How are you? physical environment in which it is utteredAy.
Him : Ok Her : Did you have friends in and According to Cutting .
2:4-.
stated get a video last night? that there are three sorts of contexts:
Situational Him : Oh.
I had friends in but we just watched a title TV physical copresence, the situation where Her : All right the interaction is taking place at the Him : That was great, how do you moment of speaking.
Example:
Her London : Ok .
Co-textual context explaining a mathematical problem to a Co-textual refers to the what they know male Pupil from London, named Berkam:
about what they have been saying.
Lecturer : forty-nine? Why do you say Speech act is an action that is performed forty-nine? by saying something.
Speech acts can be used : Cos thereAos another one here.
to make statements, ask question, give Lecturer : Right, weAove got forty-nine commands, make promises, make apologies, there, havenAot? but thereAos two, okay? and so on.
Speech acts are performed in a Now, what is it? That weAove got two of? context, and the meaning of a speech act is Well, let me give you a clue.
Erm, this determined by the context in which it is here is forty, thatAos four tens, four tens are For example, the utterance Aucan you pass the saltAy can be used to make a Pupil Background knowledge context request, a suggestion, or even a joke.
The second type of context is that of depending on the context in which it is assumed background knowledge.
This There are three categories of speech can be either:
According to Austin .
5:102-.
, .
Cultural general knowledge that most Aulinguistics fall into three categories, which people carry with them in their minds, he called AolocutionaryAo.
AoperlocutionaryAo, and about areas of life.
AoillocutionaryAo acts.
Interpersonal knowledge, specific and Illocutionary acts are the actions that private knowledge about the history of perform with our words.
They are the things the speakers themselves.
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The three categories of speech acts are giving a command.
Illocutionary acts are useful ways to understand how language determined by the speakerAos intentions and works to communicate meaning and achieve the context in which the utterance is communication goals.
By understanding the For example, the illocutionary act different types of speech acts, we can of the utterance Aucan you please past the communicate more effectively and better salt?Ay is a request.
understand the intentions of others.
From the Perlocutionary acts are the effects that three categories above, researcher focused on our words have on the listener.
They are the the illocutionary act.
changes that we bring about in the world with Illocutionary acts are actions performed our speech.
Perlocutionary acts can be by speakers through utterances that convey a intended or unitended, and they can be positive or negative.
For example, the perlocutionary act of the utterance AuI am These actions are interpreted and hungryAy maybe that the listener offers the responded to by the hearer, who completes speaker food.
The perlocutionary acts of the the illocutionary act.
In communications, utterance Aucan you please pass the salt?Ay people use their own unique way of speaking, maybe that the listener passes the salt to the which can lead to misunderstandings.
It is However, the perlocutionary effect therefore important for people to understand of a speech act is not always predictable or the meaning of utterances when they are For example, if the speaker says When a speaker says a sentence, it Aucan you please pass the salt?Ay to someone does not always have the same meaning as the who is already holding the salt shaker, the literal meaning of the words.
Instead, the perlocutionary effect maybe that the listener illocutionary act of the utterance is what the feels annoyed or frustrated.
speaker means to convey.
The illocutionary Understanding the locutionary acts helps act can be understood by the hearer if they are us to observe how word are uttered , aware of the context in which the utterance is illocutionary act help us to grasp the meaning made and the speakerAos intent.
or intention behind the utterance, and There are also other types of illocutionary perlocutionary acts includes the responses or acts, according to Searle .
8: 148-.
impact generated by the communication.
namely: .
Assertives, is to commit the From the three categories above, researcher hearer to the truth of the proposition.
It is to focused on the illocutionary act.
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Example statements.
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Illocutionary acts are common in our descriptions, classifications, explanations.
For daily lifes.
Some utterance are meant to get example: he looks at the sky and says Authe the hearer to do something, depending on the day be raining and we must go nowAy .
these utterance must be understood directives is to try to get the hearer to be have and interpreted in order from communication in such a way as make his behavior match the to be successful.
Illocutionary acts are used proposition content of directive.
Examples of not only in spoken communication, but also in written forms such as newspapers, literature.
For example: He put his bottom at and movie dialogue.
Movie dialogues can be the adge of chair Auwhy do you come late?Ay he object of study for analyzing illocutionary bent his body towards me.
Commisives is The importance of language and a commitment by the speaker to undertake the communication in the world of movies can not be ignored.
movie is powerful medium for Examples telling stories, developing characters, and commisives are promises, vows, pledge, stimulating emotions of the audience.
In this contracts, and guarantees.
For example: She stands beside her mother in kitchen AuI promise to pay you the moneyAy? .
play a key role in shaping the viewing Expressives is simply to express the sincerity People watch movies all the time, but some people may not understand the meaning behind the utterances and let them congratulations, welcomes, condolences, for go by without thinking about them.
This is example: I receive a letter from my father.
where studying illocutionary acts can be Authank a lotAy I say to the post men.
Examples Declaratives is to bring about a changed in the Movie or motion picture is a visual art world by representing it as having been form that uses moving image to tell a story.
Performatives as well as other convey a message, or record events.
Movies declarations create a state of affairs just by are often used as a means of entertainment, representing it as created.
The favorite education, artistic expression, and storytelling example are utterances like AuI pronounce you across various genres and formats.
Movies man and wifeAy, war is here by declaredAy.
Auyou often contain linguistic elements, including and firedAy, and AuI resignAy.
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are several steps of analyzing data: .
specific communicative goals.
Organize and prepare the data for analysis.
the first step, the researcher prepares the Researcher used the movie "The Good movie "The Good Dinosaur" which has been Dinosaur" as an object of this study because watched repeatedly and provides the film in this movie there are many dialogs by each script that has been printed.
This stage is character that interacted with each other.
The useful to facilitate researcher in analyzing each illocution acts in the movie.
Read backgrounds, personalities, and goals.
This through all the data.
The next step is to provides an opportunity to analyze different ascertain whether the data obtained is in types of illocutionary acts in different accordance with the needs of the researcher.
communication contexts.
The method used by the researcher is to read the entire script while watching the film "The Research Method Good Dinosaur" to ensure that the script The design of this research was descriptive matches the dialogue in the film so that the qualitative approach.
The qualitative approach data analysis stage can be continued.
is employed by the researcher since in this Begin detailed analysis with a coding process.
To start the analysis process, the researcher compiling the statements made by every character during the entire dialogue in The Good Dinosaur Movie.
Since the researcher researcher gave a different code to each found phenomena or statements made by each different type of illocutionary act.
This is character involved in the illocutionary act as done to facilitate the researcher in grouping well as the forms of illocutionary acts found the types of illocutionary acts.
Use the in the movie The Good Dinosaur this coding process to generate a description of the investigation is also included in the category setting or people as well as categories or of phenomenological research.
Technique of themes for analysis.
After coding the script of data collection in this study is documentation.
the film "The Good Dinosaur", the researcher The conducted more in-depth research by reDocumentation in data collection is the watching the film while paying attention to process of recording and storing important the codes that have been carried out by information about the data collected.
analyzing the patterns and relationships analyzing data, researcher used theory from between coded and categories, for example Creswell .
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The movie The Good Dinosaur includes reflection in the film or how Arlo's age setting and his relationship with his family.
assertives, 17 directives, 8 commissives, and Advance how the description and themes was 8 expressives.
These utterances have their be represented in the qualitative narrative.
own meanings that make the listeners believe this stage, the researcher grouped each type of in the truth of their understanding.
illocutionary act in a table which includes the For the type of assertives, the researcher type of illocutionary act and the background found 19 utterances which are divided into of the story to clarify the context of the .
A final step in data analysis descriptions, and 8 are explanations.
involved making an interpretation or meaning classifications were found in the utterances.
of the data.
In this last step, the researcher For examples.
combined all types of illocutionary acts in a table that was be neatly arranged according to Poppa.
Henrietta is the worst one in the the sequence of scenes in the movie "The In this sentence AuPoppa.
Henrietta Good Dinosaur" and included the types of is the worst one in the coopAy is statement.
illocutionary acts and the context of the story.
Arlo, who had been running scared Thus, the researcher provided an explanation because he was chased by a chiken, told of the meaning of the utterance.
Poppa that the chiken was the scariest Research Finding and Discussion thing in the coop.
At this stage, the researcher has analyzed Alright cluckers, youAore about to ger fed.
the utterances in the movie "The Good In this sentences AuAlright cluckers, youAore Dinosaur" by focusing on the speaker's about to ger fedAy is statement.
Arlo was intended meaning behind their words, known determined to finish the job, so he boldly as illocutionary acts.
Based on theory of entered the cage and emphasized to the Searle .
8:148-.
which categorizes ungags that he would give them food.
speech acts into five types: assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and YouAore me and more.
In this sentence The researcher analyzed the AuYouAore me and moreAy is a statement.
Poppa whole utterances in the movie The Good reassured Arlo that he was just like Poppa Dinosaur, and found 52 utterances which who was strong and brave enough to face were categorize as illocutionary acts.
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DonAot worry momma.
I wonAot let us starve.
utterances divided into three kinds, namely In this sentence AuDonAot worry momma.
The wonAot let us starveAy is promise.
Arlo researcher found 2 orders, 13 commands, and promised his mother that he would work 2 requests.
For examples.
harder so that they wouldn't run out of food in the winter Whoa, the river is not something to mess around with there.
In this sentence Now hold on.
ItAos not that easy, you gotta AuWhoa, the river is not something to earn your mark by doinAo something bigger mess around with thereAy is order.
Poppa, than yourself.
In this sentence AuNow hold who caught Arlo running, reminded Arlo ItAos not that easy, you gotta earn your to be careful and not to run around the mark by doinAo something bigger than river because it would be very dangerous.
yourselfAy is contract.
Poppa want children do something bigger first before they earn Hey kid, head Aoem off before those them mark.
longhorns split! In this sentence AuHey kid, head Aoem off before those longhorns When that critterAos takinAo care of, youAoll put split!Ay is command.
Butch told Arlo to your mark on the silo, right next to mine.
help direct the cattle so they wouldn't get this sentence Auwhen that critterAos takinAo care of, youAoll put your mark on the silo, right next to mineAy is contract.
Poppa expects Arlo to do Buck, get back to Buck fumes.
In this a good job, so he promises that if Arlo sentence AuBuck, get back to Buck fumesAy completes the work he gives him.
Arlo can is command.
Momma tells to Buck to put his mark next to his father's.
stop play and do her job.
For expressives, there are 8 utterances For the type of commisives, there are 8 which are divided into three kinds, namely utterances which are divided into four kinds, apologies, thanks, and congratulations.
There namely promises, pledges, contracts, and There are 1 apologies, 1 thanks, 3 congratulations and 3 welcomes.
There is no condolence in promises, 2 utterances of contract, and 4 For examples.
utterances of guarantees.
In this movie there Thanks.
I sure appreciate you lookinAo out are no utterances that are vows and pledge.
For examples.
for me.
In this sentence AuThanks.
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helping him find his way home.
Each utterance of the four illocutionary You earn your mark sweetheart.
In this saw the meaning of utterances based on sweetheartAy is congratulation.
Momma context which is based on the situation.
AuYou types above has its own meaning.
Researcher appreciates Buck's achievement as he has the situation of Arlo and friends earned his mark.
who are in trouble, they must be able to understand every utterance uttered by others You a little sneak.
Hello Libby.
In this so that no problems occur.
there are also a sentence Auyou a little sneak.
Hello LibbyAy group of birds of prey who chase them and trick them with words, therefore Arlo and is welcomes.
Libby, who had just hatched, friends must be able to recognize who is immediately slipped onto her mother's talking to them.
Therefore, knowing the back, then her mother took her off her meaning of speech is very important for Arlo and friends in completing their mission.
back and welcomed her by defining Conclusion and Suggestion Libby's behavior and saying her name.
The researcher found that The Good From the findings of 52 illocutionary Dinosaur movie uses a lot of illocutionary speech acts, it is found that the dominant type Based on searle's theory, there are five of assertive is assertive as many as 19 types of illocutionary acts namely assertive.
However, in this movie there are This study discusses illocutionary acts the types of and the meaning of illocutionary acts spoken by each character in Declarative type is not found in the movie The Good Dinosaur.
The researcher the movie.
used Searle's theory which reveals that From this study we can also see that in illocutionary is divided into five types, every utterance we have a meaning based on namely assertives, directives, commissives.
The dangerous situation Arlo and his expressives, and declaratives.
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