SPEECH ACTS IN THE MAIN CHARACTER’S DIALOGUE ON SYDNEY WHITE MOVIE

Abstract

This study deals with Speech Acts used in Sydney White movie’s dialogue. The
purpose of this study was to find out the types of speech acts based on George
Yule’s theory and to find out which types were dominant in the dialogue.
Character that to be analyzed was Sydney White’s utterance. Sydney White was
the main character in “Sydney White” movie. The research was conducted by
using descriptive qualitative approach. There were five types of speech acts in
Sydney White movie script. They were 7 Declarations (1.97%), 120
Representatives (33.89%), 93 Expressives (26.27%), 125 Directives (35.33%),
and 9 Commisives with the total percentage of 2.54%. The findings of this study
showed that Directives was the dominantly used in this movie. There were 125
(35.33%) utterances that uttered by the main character namely Sydney White in
“Sydney White” movie. Directive was the dominantly used in the movie
because Directives uttered when the main character intends to give commands,
orders, requests, suggestion, warning, permitting, urging, questioning, advising,
begging, challenging.