ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS FOUND IN LITTLE WOMEN MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

This study focuses on illocutionary act found in Little Women Movie Script." In this research, the data is taken from the Little Women movie script. Two main theories are used for this study. The first theory is pragmatic theory from George Yule (1996). The second theory is the function of the illocutionary act theory as explained by Leech (1983) in the book entitled "Principles of Pragmatics". The methods of this research are divided into four steps, they are finding or deciding the data source, collecting the data, analysing the data, and presenting the data. The data is collected by reading the movie script several times and underlining or marking the illocutionary acts that are found in the movie script. After that, the data is classified based on the various types and functions of illocutionary acts. Furthermore, the data is also analysed using Yule’s points of view in pragmatic. In presenting the data, descriptive research is used in this research. Based on the analysis, the types of illocutionary acts that are found in the Little Women movie script are declaration, representative, expressive, directive, and commissive. Meanwhile, the functions of the illocutionary act that are found in the movie script are competitive, convivial, collaborative, and conflictive.