“ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN KARATE KID’S MOVIE”.

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“ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN KARATE KID’S MOVIE”

A THESIS

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

By:

EVA INRIANI RAJAGUKGUK

Reg. No. 209220012

ENGLISH EDUCATION AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The writer wants to thanks and praise to the Almighty God, Papa Jesus Christ because of his blessing, protection, and love who has blessed the writer so that she has completed this thesis to fulfill one of the requirements to obtain Sarjana Sastra of English and Literature Department in State University of Medan. The writer had gotten many supports and guidance in finishing this thesis. Due to the problems, the writer would like to express her gratitude to these following people who have contributed to the making of this thesis.

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar, M.Si, the Rector of State University of Medan.

 Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, the Dean of Faculty of Languages and

Arts, Vice Dean I, Vice Dean II, Vice Dean III, and all the administrative staff.

suggestions and administrative during her study.

 Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd as well as her Thesis Consultant for his precious

time on giving advices and correcting and Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S, her Academic Advisor and Drs. Lidiman Sahat Martua Sinaga, M.Hum and Dra. Rahmah, M.Hum for her suggestion and guidance.

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

Mam Euis for helping her in settling the administration procedures.

 Her beloved parents, Darwis Rajagukguk and Sarasi Malau who has patiently given moral, spiritual and financial support including the endless love and pray for her.

 Her beloved brothers and sister, Mario Rajagukguk, Putra Arjuna

Rajagukguk, and Yanti Rajagukguk Am. Keb for their support, endless

love, sacrifice, pray, and their care.

 Her beloved family in “GKPI B.Kuis”, Pdt. MRE br. Aritonang, Amang Gabe, Rida, Nova, Nomi, Rina, Leli, Chatrin, Berta, Widia, Joshua, Yogi, Wironi, Sepran, Alex, Rinto, Kiel, SiskaWinda, and all

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 Her beloved friends, Ingrid, Dwi , Sarah, Novie, Amel (Genk C),

Meirani Debora br. Ginting and UKMKP friends, Anita, Fariz, Hana, Harna, Lisa, Sartika, and all Sasing A & B ‘2009.

Medan, Juli 2014 The writer,

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ABSTRACT

Rajagukguk, Eva Inriani. 209220012. Illocutionary Act in Karate Kid’s Movie. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2014

The study deals with the types of illocutionary act in Karate Kid’s Movie. The objectives of the study are to discover the dominant illocutionary act and to implicate for the use dominant illocutionary act in movie. The data were the transcript of Dre Parker’s utterances which were downloaded from internet. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The findings showed that there were 220 utterances which contained 4 types of illocutionary act. Dre Parker tended to use the representative (54, 55%), directive (34, 50%), expressive (8, 18%), and commissive (2, 72%). The most dominant type of illocutionary act was representative because he mainly uses the statement of arguing, asserting, informing and describing.

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LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 4.1 ... 36

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LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1 ... 43

APPENDIX 2 ... 50

APPENDIX 3 ... 51

APPENDIX 4 ... 56

APPENDIX 5 ... 58

APPENDIX 6 ... 59

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1. There are five types of illocutionary acts used in Karate Kid’s Movie. They

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

total number of illocutionary act is 220 utterances. The total percentage of

representative is 54, 55% (120 items), directive 34, 50% (76

items),expressive 8, 18% (18 items), and commissive 2, 72% (6 items),

declarative 0, 00% (0 items).

2. After doing the analysis, it is found that representative is the dominant

type of illocutionary act used by Dre Parker in Karate Kid’s Moviein 54,

55%, and then followed by directive in 34, 50%, expressive in 8, 18%,

commissive in 2, 72% and declarative in 0,00%.

3. The dominant type of illocutionary act in the movie implies that

representative has a great role in the movie with the total number of 121,

and total percentage of 54, 55%. In using representatives, the speaker

conveys his belief that some proposition is true. Dre Parker mainly uses

the statement of describing, asserting, arguing and informing about

something. In all of his dialogue with other, he uses many terms of

representative such as statement, explanation, and information. It means

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the movie such as arguing,asserting, complaining, describing, informing,

reporting etc.

B. Suggestion

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 illocutionary act and it is suggested for them to

analyze the theory of illocutionary act widely in order to make a further

research about illocutionary act.

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

especially in movie, are suggested to analyze the problem more detail in

order to develop the analysis of illocutionary act widely.

3.

It is suggested for other researcher to make a detail analysis

ofillocutionary act in other movies or another field such as dialogue

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