An Analysis Of Directive Speech Act In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Down Part I Movie

ABSTRACT
ANDI ATHIRAH. 2021. An Analysis of Directive Speech Act in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Down Part 1” Movie (A Pragmatic Analysis) (Supervised by Simon Sitoto and Marleiny Radjuni).
This research aims to describe the type of directive speech acts used by the main characters in The Twilight Saga : Breaking Down Part 1 movie script, and reveal the reasons why directive speech acts are used by the main characters in the movie.
In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method. The writer took the data from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Down Part 1 movie script and determined all the utterances that contained directive speech act and classified them based on their types. After that, the writer analyzed the data based on Vanderveken’s Theory.
The result of this research shows that there are 12 types of directive speech acts used by the main characters. They are; asking, requesting, ordering, commanding, instructing, suggesting, advising, warning, dismissing, prohibiting, begging, and challenging. The total number of data found are 43 utterances directive speech act: 8 data of asking, 7 data of requesting, 7 data of ordering, 7 data of commanding, 4 data of prohibiting, 3 data of advising, 1 data of dismissing, 2 data of warning, 2 data of begging, 1 data of challenging, 1 data of suggesting, 1 data of instructing. The use of directive speech act is influenced by the situation in communication especially in conversation.