An Analysis of Illocutionary Act Used by Elsa as One of The Main Characters in Frozen Movie Script

Abstract

This study intend to analyze speech act of illocutionary used by one of the main characters in frozen movie script. In the analysis is to investigate what types of Illocutionary acts utterances is stated. The purpose of this study is to find out the illocutionary acts type used by Elsa as one of the main characters in Frozen movie script, and the next purpose is to describe the dominant illocutionary act type used by Elsa as one of the main characters in Frozen movie script. The research design of this research is library research with qualitative approach, the data of this research is the utterances of Elsa as one of the main characters in Frozen movie script and the data source is frozen movie script written by Jennifer Lee. The result of the data analysis showed that there were five types of illocutionary act base on searle’s classifications, they are: 1) 16 utterances = 32% of representative were like Well, he was sprightly, 2) 34 utterances = 64% of directives were like Anna, go back to sleep, 3) 3 utterances = 6% of commisives were like We are never closing them again, 3) 18 utterances = 36% of expressive were like It was an accident. I’m sorry, Anna and 5) 3 utterances = 6% of declaratives were like Hi, I’m Olaf and I like warm hugs. Futhermore, the next result were the dominant act of the data had been classified into illocutionary acts base on searle’e classification found that the dominant act that produced by Elsa is directive act that reaches 64%.