Illocutionary Acts of The Main Character’s Utterances in Spider-Man: No Way Home Movie = Illocutionary Acts of The Main Character’s Utterances in Spider-Man: No Way Home Movie

Achmadina Mega Kartyka, 2023. Illocutionary Acts of The Main Character’s Utterances in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Movie. (Supervised by Kamsinah and Karmila Mokoginta)
This research aims to (1) determine the types of illocutionary acts used in the main character’s utterances in Spider-Man: No Way Home movie by Jon Watts; and (2) describe the context of the illocutionary acts.
This study used a qualitative research method. The data were obtained from the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home by Jon Watts. The categories of illocutionary acts were determined based on the theory of John Searle, while the context of the illocutionary acts is elaborated based on the theory of Dell Hymes. The data analysis was conducted in several steps. First, the writer observed the utterances and the illocutionary acts found in the movie of Spider-Man: No Way Home. After that, the illocutionary act of each utterance was determined and analyzed. The context of each act was also analysed. Based on the results of the analysis, five types of illocutionary acts were found, including directive, expressive, representative, commissive, and declarative. Furthermore, the utterance interpretation depends on situational context: setting, participants, ends, act sequence, key, instrumentalities, norm, and genre.
Keywords: movie, main characters, illocutionary acts, “Spider-Man: No Way Home”

Keywords : movie, main characters, illocutionary acts, “Spider-Man: No Way
Home”