ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitled The Use of Illocutionary Act Uttered by Desmond Doyle in the “Evelyn” Movie by Bruce Beresford. This Research aims at describing the kinds of illocutionary act and the speech function on Desmond Doyle’s utterances.
In collecting the data, the researcher follows three stages. Those are data selection, data collection and data classification. Selection stage covers choosing the “Evelyn” movie as the data source, data collection covers collecting the data from Desmond’s utterances in the movie, and the data classification includes gathering Desmond’s utterances which contain direct and indirect illocutionary act and also direct and indirect speech function. In analyzing the data, the researcher follows several stages. They are transcribing, reading, classifying, and interpreting.
From the utterances in the movie script, there are 297 Desmond Doyle’s utterances. They are divided into four kinds of illocutionary act, those are 176 assertive utterances, 96 directive utterances, 7 commisive utterances, and 18 expressive utterances. The most commonly utterances used by Desmond is assertive, because here Desmond as the main actor and he gave a lot of statement, information and assertion to his hearers, for example when he attended an assembly he gave a lot of statement and explanation to the Judge and the court audience, in order to get his children back.
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