Institusion
Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang
Author
SANTRI FATIMAH, NIM. 372016018
Subject
Pemakaian Bahasa Inggris
Datestamp
2020-09-05 03:59:46
Abstract :
This thesis entitled ?An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts in ?The Message? Movie?. This study aimed to find out the types and the highest percentagetypeof directive speech acts used in ?The Message? movie. Method of the study was descriptive qualitative. The source of data was taken from?The Message? movie. This thesis was to analyzedand describedthedirectivespeech acts presented in the movie based on Yule's (1996) types of directive speech acts. The result showed therewere one hundredeighty-one (181) data from the conversation in the movie to perform thedirective speech acts, they were command (one hundred forty-eight utterances), suggestion (nineteen utterances), order (two utterances), and request (twelve utterances). The data concluded that the highest percentagetype of directive speech acts in the movie was command.