SPEECH ACT IN HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA MOVIE.

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SPEECH ACT IN HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA MOVIE

A THESIS

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra

OLEH :

SITI MAISARAH HASIBUAN

Registration Number :209520015

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Great thankfulness to Allah SWT for always giving the writer blessing,

endless love, health, strength and mercy, especially in process of accomplishing

this thesis.

This thesis has been written to fulfill the requirements for the degree of

Sarjana Sastra (S1) at English and Literature Department of Faculty of Language

and Arts in the State University of Medan.

In accomplishing this thesis, the writer was helped by so many beloved

people and the writer would like to express her gratitude to:

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar, M.Si, the Rector of State University of Medan  Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, the Dean of Faculty Language and Arts.  Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English and Literature

Department and as her Reviewer .

 Dra.Meisuri,M.A the Secretary of English and Literature Department.  Dr. Rahmah, M.Hum as the Head of Applied Linguistics Program as

well as her Thesis Adviser.

 Drs.Muhammad Natsir,M.Hum, her Academic Adviser  Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning,M.Pd ., her Reviewer.

 Prof.Dr. Lince Sihombing, M.Pd., her Reviewer

 All the Lectures of English Department, for their valuable knowledge, advices and guidance during her academic years in English Departement.

 Mam Euis for helping her in settling the administration procedures.

 Her beloved parent, Drs. H. Amrin Hasibuan and Hj. Syahriani Siregar thank you for the understanding and the big support in prayer, love, motivation and financial while accomplished this thesis.

 Her beloved brothers and sisters, Mhd. Syahrizal Hsb, Ansari Hsb,

Sofyan Arifin Hsb, Rusdi Nasution, Bebi Agustina Siregar, Davi Aulina Tanjung, Nanda Hrp, Hotnida Sari Hsb and Siti Mayasari Hsb

for their support,endless love, sacrifice, pray, and their care.

 Her beloved nephews and nieces, M.Arbi Syahrin Hasibuan, Sutan

Rizky Nauli Hasibuan, Andara Putri Hasibuan, Zhofiroh Alifa Rusdi Nasution, Sakhi Zaidan Arifin Hasibuan

 Her beloved cousins, Elida Sari Lubis, Rezki Atika Hasibuan, Nurul

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 Her beloved friends, Eva, Dwi, Novi and Amel and all sasing A & B

2009.

Medan, February 2015 The writer

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ABSTRACT

Hasibuan, Siti Maisarah. 209520015. Speech Act in Hotel Transylvania Movie. A Thesis. Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan. 2015

The study deals with finding the types and dominant type of speech act used in

Hotel Transylvania Movie. The data were taken from the main character in Hotel

Transylvania Movie that is Count Dracula. The study was conducted by using

descriptive qualitative design. The findings showed that there were 299 utterances

which contained 4 types of speech act. Count Dracula tended to use the

representative (45,15%), directive (38,13%), expressive (9,70%), and commisive

(7,02%). The most dominant type of speech act was representative because he

mainly uses the statement of arguing, asserting, informing and describing. It

shows that in conversation’Count Dracula’ mostly gave information and statement

about human world.

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LIST OF APPENDICES

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.The Background of The Study

Language as an important part in our daily activity by language people can

communicate with other people without misunderstanding and misperception.

Language is used by everybody to communicate and express their thoughts and

fellings to other people by sound, gestures and signals.

Linguistics which is regarded as the study of language explains all about

aspect of language in its used. Austin (1962) There are many different things that

speakers can do with words and some utterances that the speakers produce are not

statements or question about some piece of information , but actions. From austin

explanation, it shows that word are not only something the speakers say

something, the speaker do not just say it exactly, but there is an implicit meaning

behind it. Therefore, the words or utterances that we produce also can lead to

misunderstanding.

We always perform speech act in our daily life. Sometimes we don’t

realize that the utterances we produce consist of speech act. We often use

utterances with indirect meaning . Speech act occurs on the process of meaning in

how the communication occurs and how the listener receives the aim. For

example, it is hot here the meaning is sometimes implicit to request to do an

action that is to switch on the fan or maybe open the window.

Sometimes we cannot catch what other say in their utterances that may

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radio, advertisment, dialogue in television, newspaper and movie. Movie is one of

the medium where we can find a complete from of speech act. Movie uses spoken

languge which shows the power of communication in which the movies need

dialogue between two or more people.

Communication is effective if the purpose of the communication can be

gained well, both speaker and hearer have the same perception of the thing they

are talking about. Yule (1996:47) state that action performed via utterance are

generally called speech act.Speech act are a staple of everyday communicative

life. In general, speech acts make action performed via utterance. Performing an

action via utterances are commonly given more specific labels, such as apology,

complaint, compliment, invitation, and promise or request. The action performed

by producing an utterance when people speak will consist of three related act.

They are locutionary act (utterance), illocutionary act (process of meaning) and

perlocutionary acts (utterance effect on the hearer).

In this case, there are 5 (five) types of general Function performed by

speech act (Yule,1996:53):

1. Declaration that changes the world via utterances.

2. Representative that state what speaker believes to be case or not.

3. Expressive that state what the speaker feels.

4. Directive, that speaker to get someone else to do something.

5. Commisive, that speakers use to commit themselves to some future action.

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Pragmatics approach as the way of analysis is used to consider how the

speakers use the language in the social interaction with others. The usage of

speech act is also used in movie because a movie is actually representation of the

real conversation in natural society. The writer has chosen Hotel Transylvania

movie.

Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy

comedy film by Sony Pictures Animation. The film was released on September

28,2012 by Columbia picutures. The writer is interested in analyzing the speech

acts because it is important to get meaning of speech acts in the utterances found

in the Hotel Transylvania movie and to get a good understanding on the whole

story. In this case the writer used movie script to find out some speech act.

B.The Problem of TheStudy

The problems of the study are formulated as the following:

1. What type of speech acts are found in Hotel Transylvania Movie?

2. Which type of speech acts is the most dominant in Hotel Transylvania

movie?

3. Why does the dominant speech acts occurs on Count Dracula’s dialogue in

Hotel Transylvania Movie?

C.The Objective of The Study

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1. To find out the types of speech acts of the main character in Hotel

Transylvania Movie.

2. To find out the most dominant type of speech acts used in Hotel

Transylvania Movie.

3. To find out the reason why the most dominant of speech acts occurs on

Count Dracula’s dialogue in Hotel Transylvania Movie.

D.The Scope of The Study

The study is limited to analyze utterances of the main character in Hotel

Transylvania movie named Count Dracula using the theory of speech acts by

Yule(1996:53), declarative, representative, expressive, directives, and

commisives.

E.The Significance of The Study

The findings are expected to be useful for the readaer it can give

information about speech acts through Movie. And this research can be used as

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusions

After the data had been analyzed, some conclusion are drawn as the

following:

1. There are five types of speech acts used in Hotel Transylvania Movie. They

are representative, directive,expressive, commisive, and declarative. The

total number of speech act is 299 utterances. The total percentage of

representative is 45,15% (135 items), directive 38,13% (114 items),

expressive 9,70% (29 items), commisive 7,02% (21 items), and declarative

0,00% (0 item) .

2. Seeing the result of analysis, it was found that representative is the dominant

type of speech act used by Count Dracula in Hotel Transylvania Movie.

3. The dominant type of speech act is representative. It implies that

representative has a great role in the movie with total number of 135, and

total percentage of 45,15%. Count dracula mainly uses the statement of

describing, asserting, arguing and informing about something. In all of his

dialogue with other characters, he uses many terms of representative such as

statement, explanation and informing. It means that Count Dracula mainly

used representative in communicating each other in the movie such as

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B. Suggestions

In relation to the conclusions above, suggestions are drawn as follows:

1. For the students, it is better for them to enrich their knowledge in

communication by using speech act and it is suggested for them to analyze

the theory of speech act widely in order to make further research about

speech act.

2. The readers, who are interested to do the study about speech act especially

in movie, are suggested to analyze the problem more detailin order to

develop the analysis of speech act widely.

3. It is suggested for other researchers to make a detail analysis of speech act

in other movie or another field such as dialogue in televison, radio,

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