PREM: Ten seconds. Latika, what do you think? LATIKA: I don’t know. I’ve never known. PREM: PREM: JAMAL: Just. Because. PREM: Final answer? LATIKA: JAMAL: I knew you’d be watching. This is our destiny.

210. JAMAL:

It’s the only number I know. 351

211. PREM: You are on your own, Jamal.

352

212. PREM: I’m guessing that isn’t your brother. This is-

354

213. PREM:

Okay Latika, you want to hear the question one more time? And let’s be clear about this. Twenty million rupees ride on your answer. You have thirty seconds. Jamal, please read out the question to Latika. Now. 356 214. JAMAL: Is that really you? 357

215. LATIKA: Yes.

358

216. PREM:

The question, Jamal. The question. 359

217. JAMAL: In Alexander Dumas’ book, The Three Musketeers, two of the

musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What was the name of the third musketeer? Was it A Aramis, B Cardinal Richelieu, C D’Artagnan, D Planchet. 360

218. PREM:

Fifteen seconds. 361 219. JAMAL: Where are you? 362

220. LATIKA:

I’m safe. 363 221. PREM: Ten seconds. Latika, what do you think? 364

222. LATIKA: I don’t know. I’ve never known.

365

223. PREM:

You really are on your own, now, Jamal. Your final answer for twenty million rupees. 366

224. PREM:

A. Because? 368

225. JAMAL: Just. Because.

369 226. PREM: Final answer? 370

227. LATIKA:

Jamal. I thought we would meet again only in death. 377

228. JAMAL: I knew you’d be watching. This is our destiny.

378 Universitas Sumatera Utara Expositives shows how our utterances fit into the course of an argument or conversation and how we use our words. When Jamal says “Jamal Malik”, his utterance is fit into Constable Srinivas’ question for what is Jamal’s name. And also when Prem utters “I can safely say that tonight is the biggest night of both of our lives. Jamal Malik, the Call Centre worker from Mumbai has already won ten million rupees. Tonight, he can walk away with that in his pocket or make the biggest gamble in television history and go for the final question and a staggering twenty million rupees” is fit into the condition that Jamal will lose his ten million rupees if he gives the wrong answer. After analyzing all the utterances by the whole characters in Slumdog Millionaire, it is found that there are 382 utterances which can be characterized for each illocutionary acts category. This table will show the whole findings of classifications of illocutionary acts in Slumdog Millionaire: Illocutionary Acts Classifications Frequency Verdictives 8 Exercitives 36 Commissives 18 Behabitives 89 Expositives 228 TOTAL: 379 UTTERANCES Universitas Sumatera Utara The general statistics formula will be used to find the dominant illocutionary act in Slumdog Millionaire and the formula is: � = � � × ��� In which: x: percentage of illocutionary acts category F: individual frequency of illocutionary act category N: population of the whole illocutionary acts category The formula above will be applied to the finding of each illocutionary act category and it will be: 1. Verdictives: 8 378 × 100 = 2,11

2. Exercitives: