Background of the Study
what the speaker meant. Those kinds of actions performed through utterance are generally refers to the three kinds of acts performed simultaneously. Austin
distinguishes speech act analysis into three parts: Locution, Ilocutions, and Perlocutions.
Locutionary acts are the acts of saying something, provides the hearer with the core information from which to infer the speaker’s illocutionary communicative
intent or recognizing that the speaker has uttered and identified sentence from the language with an identified prosody
. The idea of an “illocutionary act” can be captured by emphasizing that “by saying something, we do something”. Meanwhile a
perlocutionary act is a speech act, as viewed at the level of its psychological consequences, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or
otherwise getting someone to do or realize something. Movie is one media that reflects the social life of human. Movie also known
as film is a motion picture with series of images which are constructed of multiple individual shots joined to another in an extended sequence. One of the important
aspect mostly occurred in movie is the dialogue conversation among the characters. The characters speak each other and there will be illocutionary act.
Utterances can be found on dialogue in movie. In analyzing illocutionary act, the writer chose data from the main character’s utterances in that movie. The
utterances produced by Alex as the main character are the appropriate sources for the writer in analyzing illocutionary act in order to look for the implicit meaning of each
utterance.
Illocutionary act has some different types. The classifications of illocutionary speech act as five subdivisions. They are: representatives, directives, commissives,
expressive, and declaratives. Each type has different context and meaning. However, this study only concerned with those five illocutionary acts among those categories of
speech acts, and the focus of this study were the implicit meaning of directive of illocutionary acts that occurred
on Alex’s dialogue in movie Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and the context of situation that supports the types of illocutionary acts
used in the movie. This study involves an exciting analysis enabling to describe the implicit
meaning of the illocutionary acts performed by the speakers through their utterances. The analysis is also connected with the illustration of the existing contexts of
situation underlying the emergence of those utterances in a particular kind of circumstance.
In speech acts the simplest cases of meaning are those in which the speaker utter a sentence and mean it exactly and literally as what he says. But, on the other
hand, not all cases of meaning as simple as that. In such cases, however, the speaker can say something and mean it, but additionally mean something else. This
complexity of the act performing illocutionary act make the hearer cannot understand the meaning of the utterance well. Therefore, illocutionary act was chosen as the topic
in this study because the complexity of the meaning utterance utter by the speaker was interesting to be discussed especially in a movie and this movie is very famous in
society.It is the first in the series to be released in 3D. The direction in the film is
almost flawless. The animated is also a thing of wonder and the language in the movie is not very hard to be understood by society.