uttering the sentence, such effects being special to the circumstances of utterance. Searle 1976 in Levinson 1983:240 has stated that illocutionary speech act has
five basic types that someone can perform it in saying something; representatives, directives, commisives, expressives, and declaratives.
Speech acts especially illocutionary acts can be found in our daily conversation in unwritten even written texts, one of the examples is movie or
movie script. Movie is a literary work which can deliver a message from the speaker actoractress or script writer to the hearer audience. The message of
the movie can be found in the dialogue or the action of the casts because the dialoguescript of the movie may express thoughts, experiences and human
feelings about something whether it happened or not. This undergraduate thesis will be concerned about speech acts especially
illocutionary acts because it is important for the reader to know and understand what illocutionary acts is. Speech acts also important for people to avoid the
communication gap which may be influence by many factors. The source of data used in this study is movie script from the movie entitled Divergent. The data
chosen from the movie script because nowadays, movie enjoyed by people all over the world, every dialogue have their own story behind it that can be
understood and influenced people who watch the movie. The Divergent is a 2014 American science fiction action movie directed by Neil Burger, based on the
novel of the same name by Veronica Roth. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but reached the number 1 spot at the box office during its opening
weekend. The storyline was interesting and the dialogues contain the illocutionary acts.
1.2 Problems of Study
From the background that has presented above, there are 2 two problems to be discussed in the following chapter:
1. What types of illocutionary acts are identified in the movie Divergent?
2. How does the context of situation support the illocutionary act in the movie
Divergent?
1.3 Aims of Study
Related to the problems in this undergraduate thesis there are two aims that are expected to be achieved, those are:
1. To identify what type of illocutionary acts used in the Divergent movie.
2. To explain the context of situation that supports the illocutionary act in the
movie Divergent.
1.4 Scope of Discussion
The analyses in this study only focus on illocutionary acts based on a theory from Searle in 1976. The analysis is limited into these two scopes of discussion.
1. The illocutionary acts’ type that are identified in the Divergent movie.
2. The context of situation that support the illocutionary act in the Divergent
movie.
1.5 Research Method
Research method is the scientific procedures which are very important in order t
o get the research’s validity. This undergraduate thesis uses qualitative method. Qualitative method is a means for exploring and understanding the
meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. The process of research involves emerging questions and procedures, data typically collected
in the participant’s setting, data analysis, inductively building from particulars to general themes, and the researcher making interpretations of the meaning of the
data John Creswell : 2009 :4. The research of this undergraduate thesis was done by applying a library
research and the data source was selected by doing online data research on the internet. The online data research obtains the online movie which is relevant to the
objective of this undergraduate thesis. The research method in this study consists of three components such as: data source, method and technique of collecting
data, and method and technique of analyzing data.
1.5.1 Data Source
Data source is sources where we can obtain the data which is relevant to the topic of this study. Since the topic of this study is pragmatics and it is concerned
with speech acts, it cannot be separated from the language used in communication especially written language. It will be more suitable if the data is taken from
written text in this case movie script. The data of this undergraduate thesis is taken
