14 The Speech Acts
No Types of
Speech Act The Act
Data Number Frequency
1 Directives
Requesting 1, 8, 17, 18, 19, and 23
6 2
Commissives Promising 13, 22, and 26
3 Requesting
28 1
3 Expressives
Loving 10, 11, 14, 15, 20, and, 21
6 Anger
9 1
4 Declaratives
Complimenting 4, 12, 24, and 25 4
Questioning 3
1 Promising
5 1
Loving 6 and 7
2 Information
2 and 16 2
Requesting 27
1 Total
28
D. Conclusion
The clear description of Love expressions in Breaking Dawn movie are as follows:
1. The Pragmalinguistic Forms
The dominant words used are love you, marry you, miss you, need you, be careful. Then they produce the expression of love in various
sentences like positive imperative, declarative, interrogative, and
15 exclamatory sentence. Beside, the researcher finds the form in word and
sentence. She also clarifies the form of love. There are three forms of love utterance in Breaking Dawn Movie, there are affection form, friendship
form, and romance form. Although the data are movie and the data analyzing is love utterance, it is understandable that mostly; the form of
love utterances are affection, friendship, and romance forms. It means that the characteristics will not use „i love you‟ to deliver love utterance. The
characteristics can show and deliver love utterance by using other word.
2. The Speaker’s Intention
The speaker‟s intention of Breaking Dawn Movie the data are analyzed using speech act theory. The speech act theory is as the
instrument to analyse and discuss the speaker‟s intention of Breaking Dawn Movie. The writer found the intention of speaker from speech acts
analysis such as showing attention, happiness, jealous, complementing, convince the bride, giving affection, fear of losing, scare of being, and feel
a pity.
3. The Speech Acts
Speech act theory focuses on communicative acts, which are performed through speech”. The researcher finds 4 types of speech acts in
