THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT OF HAZEL GRACE IN THE FAULT IN OUR STARS MOVIE

Abstract

This study deals with Illocutionary Act of Hazel Grace as the main character in
The Fault in Our Stars movie. The objectives of the study was discovered the
types of Illocutionary Act which were used by Hazel Grace as the main character
and described in what contexts that she used in The Fault in Our Stars movie. The
subject of this study was The Fault in Our Stars movie and each spoken words or
the conversation by Hazel Grace that were written in The Fault in Our Stars
movie script became the source of the data. The data were collected by browsing
and downloading from internet. This study was conducted by using qualitative
descriptive design. The result of analyzing types and the contexts of Illocutionary
Act were used by Hazel Grace as main character such as representatives with
34.6% (236 utterances), directives with 24.3% (166 utterances), expressives with
22.2% (152 utterances), declaratives with 15.5% (106 utterances) and
commissives with 3.4% (23 utterances) and made representative became the most
dominant type. And representative context was the dominant context because The
Fault in Our Stars movie used first person, main character’s point of view from
perspective of the main character that Hazel Grace used like informing,
describing, sharing, believing, stating a fact, assuming, predicting and also
complaining which make her like a narrator in that movie because she informs,
describes, shares about her diseases, her interests, her thought also about life or
everything, and what she believe by herself.