also the funny character in those movies; which are the minions. In this movie, there are some unexpected perlocutionary act reaction of the illocutionary acts of
the speaker? .The films show illocutions that have different perlocutionary act. It will be a
big problem for children if they do not understand why these situations happen in those movies.
As we know, we have to be careful when explaining something to the children because they do not know the purpose of the utterance of adults. Therefore, in this
research the writer would like to find the reasons why some illocutionary acts found in the movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad and the movie
Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian cannot
fulfill the expected perlocutionary acts of the speaker.
B. Focus of Study
In this research, the writer will focus on the unexpected perlocutionary acts reaction of the
speaker’s illocutionary acts using Speech Act Theory by John L. Austin and John Searle in the movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad and
the movie Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud .
C. Research Questions
For analysis, the writer makes his research through the following question:
1. Why do the hearer in the movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad
and the movie Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian not give the expected reaction of
the speaker’s illocutionary acts?
D. Significance of the Study
The writer hopes that through this research, the readers will get more knowledge in the fields of speech acts especially on locutionary acts,
illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts. Moreover, the research is expected to give contribution for people to understand the processes of different
perlocutionary acts. The research also is expected to give a deeper understanding of the plot of the whole story and the messages delivered in
Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad and the movie Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian..
E. Research of Methodology 1. Objectives of the Research
The purpose of this study is to describe the use of perlocutionary acts in the movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad and the movie Despicable Me
2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian.
2. The Method of Research
Based on the research question and objective of the research above, the method used is descriptive qualitative. Descriptive qualitative is the method of
research used to describe nature phenomenon happened and relevancies between
one phenomena and others.
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The method of descriptive qualitative is used by the writer is content analysis. Content analysis is any technique for making inferences
by systematically and objectively identifying specified characteristics of messages.
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This method is used to look for the processes of the different perlocutionary acts.
Then, the writer will describe the data which will answer the research questions of data analysis which will answer the two research question of data
analysis above.
3. The Techniques of Data Analysis
Collected data is analyzed using Speech act theory by J.L. Austin and John Searle. The research is approached by following steps:
a. Watching the movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad and the
movie Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero, They Called a Villian.
b. Reading the whole dialogue on script.
c. Taking notes and marking the dialogues related to locutionary acts,
illocutionary acts, and perlocutinary act on script and analyzing them. d.
Taking the conclusion of data which have been collected.
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Muhammad Farkhan. Proposal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra. Edisi Revisi, Jakarta: Adabia Press. 2011, p.4.
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Ole R. Holsti. Content Analysis. In G. Lindzey E. Aaoroson eds, The Handbook of Social Psychology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1986, p. 601.
