discuss generally speech act study, but in a more specific study or illocutionary act will be the focus of this research. Therefore, the
researcher conducts research entitled “The Analysis of Illocutionary Act in “American Sniper” Movie”. From the tittle, the researcher would like
to analyze the utterances in the movie produced by the main character of the movie Chris Kyle.
B. Problem of the study
Related to the background of the study above, the researcher formulates the problems of the study as follows:
1. What are the types of illocutionary acts used by the main character
Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” movie? 2. What are the functions of each utterances expressed by the main
character Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” movie?
C. Objective of the study
Based on the statement of the problem above, the researcher is going to analyze the following objectives:
1. To know the types of illocutionary acts used by the main character
Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” movie. 2. To know the functions of each utterances expressed by the main
character Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” movie.
D. Significance of the study
The researcher expects that the result of this research can give contribution for:
1. Theoretically Giving some contributions to explore the knowledge of speech act
theory especially illocutionary acts. The researcher hopes that the readers will understand about the theory of speech act especially
illocutionary act when they read this research in order to get the additional knowledge of it.
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2. Practically The researcher hopes that this research can help the readers to
understand the theories of speech act especially illocutionary acts. It can also be one of the references for the readers to study about the
types of illocutionary acts and it can be used as an additional knowledge in pragmatics and other fields of linguistics. The result of
this research can be used by the teacher in Teaching Language of English to teach the students about types of illocutionary acts. The
result also can be used as one of the references and additional information for the next researchers.
E. Scope and Limitation
In this research, the researcher focuses on analyzing the utterances of illocutionary acts which are used in “American Sniper” movie. The
researcher also limits the character that is Chris Kyle as the main character of the movie.
F. Definition of Key terms 1. Speech Act
