Tindak Ilokusi dan Perlokusi dalam Film Don’t Look Up: Kajian Pragmatik = Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts in Don't Look Up: A Pragmatic Study

ALYA INAYAH SALSABILA. 2026. Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts in Don’t Look Up: A Pragmatic Study (Supervised by Kamsinah). Background: Communication in satirical crisis discourse does not always produce responses that correspond with a speaker’s intention, even when the message is clearly expressed and understood. Objective: This study aims to examine how direct and indirect illocutionary acts are used to convey communicative intentions and to explain how illocutionary acts fail to produce their intended perlocutionary effects in Don’t Look Up (2021). Method: This study employed a qualitative approach with pragmatic discourse analysis. The data consisted of fifteen purposively selected utterances from scientific, political, media, corporate, and public interactions. The utterances were obtained from the audiovisual film and verified through its screenplay. Each utterance was analyzed in terms of its direct illocutionary function, indirect communicative intention, intended effect, actual response, and contextual factors. Results: The findings show that direct acts generally express overt propositions or immediate functions, while indirect acts convey broader intentions inferred from context. Scientific utterances directly present evidence while indirectly warning or urging action, whereas political, media, and corporate utterances are used to control interpretation, defend authority, or influence audiences. The outcomes include acceptance, compliance, delayed response, resistance, rejection, trivialization, emotional reactions, and ideological reinterpretation. Communicative failure is influenced by institutional hierarchy, political interests, media entertainment values, corporate ideology, speaker authority, and audience expectations. Conclusion: Communicative success depends not only on linguistic clarity and speaker intention but also on the contextual conditions shaping the hearer’s response.