C. Theoretical Framework
The aim of this study is to find out how Miranda’s directive speech acts show her leadership style in The Devil Wears Prada Movie. Some applicable
theories are used in this research to support the process of the data analysis. The first thing in this research, the writer uses Searle’s idea about the
classification of speech acts, especially in directive speech act. The second part, in order to solve the first problem about the types of directive speech act employed
by Miranda to her subordinates, the writer uses Searle’s statement to identify the types of directive speech acts. Besides, Holmes’ theory about the form of the
directive speech act is also applied in this research. Through those theories, the writer could understand the types and the forms of the directive speech acts in
each Miranda’s utterances. As known that each leadership style has particular characteristics, the
result from the first problem formulation will be analyzed through direct and indirect speech act by Yule 1996, politeness strategy by Brown and Levinson
1987, and the components of speech by Hymes 2010. The result from those processes will be used to find out how the directives speech acts show the
leadership style of Miranda according to Lewin’s theory of leadership 1976. Hence, the data will answer the second question in the problem formulation.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of this research is a character named Miranda Priestly in an American comedy-drama movie entitled The Devil Wears Prada. This movie was
published in 2006 based on Lauren Weisbeger’s novel, and produced by Wendy Finerman Production. This movie tells about graduated student named Andrea
Sachs who gets a job in Runway. Her position as an assistant is described as a job that “a million girls would kill for”. Runway is the fashion bible for all fashion
people in New York. In the movie, Andrea has to survive working under pressure at Runway. She has a devil boss named Miranda Priestly who manage and control
the whole fashion industry. As the editor in chief, Miranda wants all the works done precisely because Runway is published regularly.
In that movie, the term The Devil refers to Miranda Priestly as a ruthless, demanding and determined editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Prada is
a high quality brand name. Therefore, The Devil Wears Prada is described as the ruthless editor-in-chief who dressed in a high quality brand or a prominent figure
in a high-fashion magazine in New York. This research is done to find out how the directive speech acts show
Miranda’s leadership style toward her subordinates. With only focusing on Miranda’s directive speech acts in that movie, the writer collected the data by
using speech acts theory under pragmatics study. The data were classified based
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