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A. INTRODUCTION
In the study of language, there are two important components that should be applied, namely Language Structure and Language Function.
Language structure is the grammatical form of a language, while language function is to express our thoughts and ideas or our everyday interaction
Fauziati, 2009:9. The function of language is attached with the speaker’s and the listener’s mental activities during communication, they are the speaker’s
intention, the ideas the speaker want to convey, and the listener’s current knowledge. The function of language can be studied using Pragmatics
analysis. Pragmatics is the study of language usage. According to Levinson
1983:9, pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and context that are grammaticalized, or encoded in the structure of a language. It
concerns with how utterances can have certain meanings in a certain situation and context. This research focuses on directive utterance. It will be analyzed
using language form and speech act theory includes locution, illocution, and perlocution.
Directive utterance can be uttered by different ways. Grammatically, directive utterance can be in the form of declarative sentence, interrogative
sentence, or imperative sentence. Furthermore, people have different intention by uttering directive utterance. The speaker’s intentions can be command,
request, prohibition, suggestion, warning, and invitation. It can be found many directive utterances in Breaking Dawn Part I
movie. For instance, “Walk away” and “Easy up”, has intention as command. “Will you tell me what’s going on?” and “Can I just go barefoot?” has
intention as request. Yet, not all commands are in the form of imperative sentence. And not all requests are in the form of interrogative sentence. These
all are going to be discussed more in this research. In this research, the writer shows two previous studies related to
directive utterance. Firstly, the research was conducted by Fitriani UMS, 2010 entitled A Pragmatics Analysis on the Directive Utterances in New
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Tastement. The results of her research show that there are three types of directive utterances, namely: declarative sentence, interrogative sentence and
imperative sentence. Moreover, this research also shows the intention of directive utterances; they are commanding, requesting, suggesting, invitation
and warning. Secondly, the research was conducted by Prasetyo UMS, 2009
entitled A Socio-Pragmatics Analysis on English Directive Utterances in King Arthur Movie Manuscript. In this research, the writer got three founding. He
found that 1 there are three intentions of directive utterance, i.e.: command, request and suggestion, 2 there are four reasons of using directive utterance,
i.e.: showing power, showing respect, giving strong order and softening utterance.
This research has some similarities and differences with the previous ones. The similarities among this research, Fitriani’s, and Prasetyo’s are on the
object i.e.: directive utterances and they focuses on pragmatics study. Meanwhile, this research is also slight different from the two previous studies.
The difference among Fitriani, Prasetyo and this research is on the data source of the research. This research takes Breaking Dawn Part I movie as the data
source. And it will be analyzed by employing language form theory and speech act theory by Austin 1969.
This research emerges two problem statements. They are: 1 what are the language forms of directive utterances used in Breaking Dawn Part I
movie? and 2 what are the intentions of employing directive utterances in Breaking Dawn Part I movie?
The objectives of this research are 1 To identify the language forms of directive utterances in Breaking Dawn Part I movie and 2 To clarify the
intentions of employing directive utterances in Breaking Dawn Part I movie.
B. UNDERLYING THEORY
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