AN ANALYSIS OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACT USED BY CHARACTERS IN GREEN BOOK MOVIE (2018) = AN ANALYSIS OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACT USED BY CHARACTERS IN GREEN BOOK MOVIE (2018)

BESSE ASTRIANTI. An Analysis of Indirect Speech Act Used by Characters in Green Book Movie (2018). (Supervised by Herawaty and Sitti Sahraeny)

This research investigates the use of indirect speech act performed by characters in Green Book movie. The aims of this study is to analyze the structural form and communicative function of indirect speech act used and to find out the real meaning of the utterances that performed indirect speech act.
This study used a qualitative method and used the theory of indirect speech act by George Yule (1996) as the main theory.
The result of this study is the writer found 30 utterances that perform indirect speech act. There are 2 indirect speech acts function as declaration which all of them performed in interrogative form, 8 indirect speech acts expressing question which all of the utterances performed in declarative form, and 20 indirect speech acts expressing request in which 13 utterances are performed in declarative form, and 7 of them are performed in interrogative form.

Keywords : Pragmatic, Indirect Speech Act, Yule.