ABSTRACT
Amelyya, Dian. 2009. An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts in the Movie “The Sleeping and Beauty”. A Final Project. English Department Languages and Arts Faculty.
Advisors: I. Drs. A Sofwan, Phd., II. Drs. Hartoyo, M.A, PhD.
Keywords: Movie, Dialogue text, Directive Speech Acts, Qualitative.
In order language is a means of communication, and it is very important for our life. It offers the speakers an opportunity to speak about anything of their knowledge. We use it to communicate everyday with others for doing social interaction. It means that the language said to be a social characteristic. Language is a sound and word systems used by human to express their thoughts and feelings according to Oxford Advanced Learning Dictionary Pragmatic is consists of several aspects. Pragmatic analysis is a language analysis based on pragmatic views. Analysis of pragmatics try to find out the speaker’s intentions, whether it would be expressed explicitly or implicitly because is revealing speech in communication. Listening is a significant aspect within the competence attainment in English speech. Student is expected gets to understand a several meanings (intrapersonal, ideational, and textual) in various interactions oral text, and particularly in the form of descriptive, narrative, spoof/recount, procedure, report and anecdote.
Language competences is become one of competence inherent from a language activity, because of central functions in the competence attainment of English language. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing has a central role in English, such as understanding several meanings (intrapersonal, ideational, and textual) within various interaction oral text and the helping text oral particularly which in the form of descriptive, narrative, spoof/recount, procedure, report and anecdote are needed a competence of good listening in English.
Based on the assumption of qualitative research method, it leads the write to support her study to conduct the library research. It means that the investigation is based on the data taken from the script that the writer finds from the internet as the main source and then analyze it by using some sources such as books, articles, encyclopedia, etc to support her study. The other source of data that used by the writer is data from the VCD.
