An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts in the Movie “The Sleeping and Beauty”.

ABSTRACT

Amelyya, Dian. 2009. An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts in the Movie “The
Sleeping and Beauty”. A Final Project. English Department Languages and
Arts Faculty.
Advisors: I. Drs. A Sofwan, Phd., II. Drs. Hartoyo, M.A, PhD.
Keywords: Movie, Dialogue text, Directive Speech Acts, Qualitative.

In order language is a means of communication, and it is very important for
our life. It offers the speakers an opportunity to speak about anything of their
knowledge. We use it to communicate everyday with others for doing social
interaction. It means that the language said to be a social characteristic. Language is a
sound and word systems used by human to express their thoughts and feelings
according to Oxford Advanced Learning Dictionary Pragmatic is consists of several
aspects. Pragmatic analysis is a language analysis based on pragmatic views. Analysis
of pragmatics try to find out the speaker’s intentions, whether it would be expressed
explicitly or implicitly because is revealing speech in communication. Listening is a
significant aspect within the competence attainment in English speech. Student is
expected gets to understand a several meanings (intrapersonal, ideational, and textual)
in various interactions oral text, and particularly in the form of descriptive, narrative,
spoof/recount, procedure, report and anecdote.

Language competences is become one of competence inherent from a
language activity, because of central functions in the competence attainment of
English language. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing has a central role in
English, such as understanding several meanings (intrapersonal, ideational, and
textual) within various interaction oral text and the helping text oral particularly
which in the form of descriptive, narrative, spoof/recount, procedure, report and
anecdote are needed a competence of good listening in English.
Based on the assumption of qualitative research method, it leads the write to
support her study to conduct the library research. It means that the investigation is
based on the data taken from the script that the writer finds from the internet as the
main source and then analyze it by using some sources such as books, articles,
encyclopedia, etc to support her study. The other source of data that used by the writer
is data from the VCD.
In the discussion, many people may use both their Directive Speech Acts and
English to state their opinions, as long as it does not turn out to be an excuse for
laziness to practice the target language.