4. The Instruments of Research
In this research, the writer uses himself as the main research instrument through reading, identifying, collecting the dialogue and making it as data by
using Speech act theory based on J.L Austin and John Searle concerning locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutinary act in the dialogue
5. Units of Analysis
The unit of analysis of this research is scripts from movie Despicable Me 1: SuperBad, SuperDad directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud released in
2010 and Despicable Me 2: When The World Needed a Hero , They Called a Villian , directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud and released in 2013. Both
films were distributed by Walt Disney Picture.
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CHAPTER II THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Previous Research
The idea on writing this thesis is based on some linguistics books that supply relevant information to the topic. The writer listed some of the result of
previous studies by several researchers that had ever been read by the writer. The following related research of the perlocutionary acts research was conducted by
Kang Qiang with titled „On Perlocutionary Acts’. His research tells us about
introduction of perlocutionary acts and gives explanation about the kind of effect of perlocutionary acts in people, the theory, and the aspect of perlocutionary acts.
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It means his research focuses in giving explanation about perlocutionary acts deeply
The study was conducted by Yuanita Devy Kuspriyanti and Dewi Retno Sari with the title
„Illocution and Perlocution Analysis on the Main Character Conflicts in An Ideal Husband’. In this study, the researchers focus on the main
characters conflicts in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. This research uses descriptive qualitative approach. As the data, the researchers used the fragments
of the main characters in An Ideal Husband drama’s script. Based on the result of the research, they found out that asking, command, and giving explanation were
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Kang Qiang. On Perlocutionary Acts. Journal of Language and Literature Vol.6 1, 25 January 2013 China: University of Changchun , Changchun, pp.60-64.
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