Assertive acts used by protagonist characters in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief's movie.

ASSERTIVE ACTS USED BY PROTAGONIST CHARACTERS

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PERCY

JACKSON&THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING

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Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Sarjana Degree of English Department Faculty of Arts and Humanities UIN Sunan Ampel

Surabaya

By: Nur Fitri Yana Reg. Number A33213071

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA 2017

ABSTRACT

Yana, Nur Fitri. 2017. Assertive Acts Used by Protagonist Characters in Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief’s Movie. English Department, Faculty of Arts And Humanities. State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

The advisor: Murni Fidiyanti, M. A.

Key words: Speech act, Assertive acts, Assertive verbs, Protagonist, Movie

This research entitled “Assertive Acts Used by Protagonist Characters in

Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief’s Movie” reveals 3 problems that are what are types of assertive acts used by protagonist characters, what are assertive verbs used by protagonist characters and the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts. The aims of this research are to describe the types of assertive acts that used by protagonist characters, to analyze the assertive verbs that used by protagonist characters and to explain the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts.

The writer uses Searle’s theory in analyzing the types of assertive acts and uses Leech’s Theory in analyzing the assertive verbs. Qualitative content analysis and descriptive research designs are selected to conduct thist research. The writer herself becomes the only instrument – human instrument. Reading and selecting the entire movie script of Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning become the steps of data collection. Then, the procedures of data analysis contain identifying, classifying and elaborating the data. Drawing the conclusion is also the last step required.

The result of this research is Percy Jackson applies 5 types of assertive acts and 4 kinds of assertive verbs. While, Annabeth Chase applies 6 types of assertive acts and 4 kind of assertive acts. The differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts are Percy prefers to use disagree type and Deny type of assertive acts and prefers to use publicly assertive verbs. While, Annabeth prefers to use confirm type of assertive acts and prefers to use confidently assertive verbs.

INTISARI

Yana, Nur Fitri. 2017. Assertive Acts Used by Protagonist Characters in Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief’s Movie. Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

The advisor: Murni Fidiyanti, M. A.

Key words: Ujaran, Tindak tutur asertif, Jenis deskripsi asertif, Protagonis, Film

Penelitian ini berjudul “Assertive Acts Used by Protagonist Characters in

Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief’s Movie” mengangkat 3 masalah yaitu jenis tindak tutur asertif apa yang digunakan oleh karakter protagonis, jenis deskripsi asertif apa yang digunakan oleh karakter protagonis dan perbedaan antara Percy Jackson dan Annabeth Chase dalam mengaplikasikan tindak tutur asertif. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan tipe tindak tutur yang digunakan oleh karakter protagonis, untuk menganalisis jenis deskripsi asertif yang digunakan oleh karakter protagonis dan untuk menjelaskan perbedaan antara Percy Jackson dan Annabeth Chase dalam mengaplikasikan tindak tutur asertif.

Penulis menggunakan teori dari Searle dalam menganalisis tipe tindak tutur asertif dan menggunakan teori dari Leech dalam menganalisis jenis deskripsi asertif. Analisis isi kualitatif dan desain penelitian deskriptif dipilih untuk melakukan penelitian ini. Penulis sendiri menjadi satu-satunya intrumen – instrumen manusia. Membaca dan memilih seluruh naskah film Percy Jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief menjadi langkah pendataan. Kemudian, prosedur analisis data berisi identifikasi, klasifikasi dan perincian data. Menggambar kesimpulan juga merupakan langkah terakhir yang dibutuhkan.

Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah Percy Jackson mengapplikasikan 5 tipe dari tindak tutur asertif dan 4 jenis deskripsi asertif. Sedangkan, Annabeth Chase mengaplikasikan 6 tipe dari tindak tutur asertif dan 4 jenis deskripsi asertif. Perbedaan antara Percy Jackson dan Annabeth Chase dalam mengaplikasikan tindak tutur asertif adalah Percy lebih cenderung menggunakan tipe tidak setuju dan menyangkal dari tindak tutur asertif dan lebih cenderung menggunakan jenis deskripsi asertif yang mempublikasikan secara umum. Sedangkan, Annabeth lebih cenderung menggunkan tipe memastikan dari tindak tutur asertif dan mengumumkan secara percaya diri.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Inside Cover Page………....…...i

Inside Title Page………...…...ii

Declaration Page………..……….…...iii

Motto………...………...iv

Dedication Page………..……...v

Thesis Advisor’s Approval Page………..……...vi

Thesis Examiners’ Approval Page………...….vii

Acknowledgement………...…………...viii

Table of Contents…………..………...…x

Appendix...………...………….………....xiii

Abstract………..………...xiv

Intisari………...……….…xv

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study……….……….…1

1.2Research Problems………...….5

1.3Research Objectives………...…………...5

1.4Significance of the Study………...6

1.5Scope and Limitations………...6

1.6Definition of Key Terms………..7 x

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1 Pragmatics...8

2.2 Speech Acts and Its Classification...10

2.2.1 Locutionary Act...11

2.2.2 Illocutionary Act...11

2.2.3 Perlocutionary Act...13

2.3 Assertive Acts...13

2.4 Assertive Verbs...15

2.5 Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief Movie...16

2.6 Review of Previous Studies...16

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design...19

3.2 Subject of The Study...20

3.3 Data and Data Sources...21

3.4 Research Instrument...22

3.5 Technique of Data Collection...22

3.6 Technique of Data Analysis...23

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.1 Findings...24

4.1.1 Types and Assertive Verbs of Assertive Acts...24

4.1.1.1 Inform...28

4.1.1.1.1 Informing Publicly...28 xi

4.1.1.1.2 Informing Confidently...31

4.1.1.1.3 Informing Privately...34

4.1.1.1.4 Informing Tentatively...36

4.1.1.2 Suggest...37

4.1.1.2.1 Suggesting Tentatively...38

4.1.1.3 Agree...39

4.1.1.3.1 Agreeing Confidently...39

4.1.1.3.2 Agreeing Privately...41

4.1.1.4 Disagree...42

4.1.1.4.1 Disagreeing Publicly...43

4.1.1.4.2 Dissgreeing Confidently...44

4.1.1.4.3 Disagreeing Privately...46

4.1.1.5 Confirm...48

4.1.1.5.1 Confirming Confidently...49

4.1.1.5.2 Confirming Privately...51

4.1.1.6 Deny...52

4.1.1.6.1 DenyingPublicly...53

4.1.1.6.2 Denying Confidently...55

4.1.2 The Differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth In Applying Assertive acts...56

4.1.2.1 Inform...57

4.1.2.2 Suggest...59 xii

4.1.2.3 Agree...60

4.1.2.4 Disagree...61

4.1.2.5 Confirm...62

4.1.2.6 Deny...63

4.2 Discussion...64

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion...69

5.2 Suggestion...70

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter describes background of study, research problems, research objectives, significance of the study, scope and limitation of this study and definition of the key terms.

1.1 Background of Study

Communication is the main part of human life. When somebody communicate with other people, it makes an interaction automatically. In an interaction, someone usually communicates with other people is to deliver what are they think, belief, want and etc. Languange as the tools of communication has some functions such as asking, thanking, asserting, expressing and etc. Thus, the writer aims to analyse about how someone asserts someone else in a communication that can be analyzed through the language.

There are many sciences of language that used to analyze about language function in a communication. Pragmatics is one of the branches of linguistic fields which studies about the purpose of language in human communication as decided by the situation of context (Mey, 2001:22). To strengthen the meaning of pragmatics, Yule (1996:3) states that Pragmatics is intended to the study of meaning as communicated by the speaker and interpreted by the listener. Essentially, Pragmatics is the study that focus to the meaning in communication (language use) based on the context of interaction that utter by the speaker and interpret by the listener.

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Speech act is one of the topics that discussed in Pragmatics. According to Searle (1969:16) speech act is a basic or small units of linguistic communication which generally as the production of the symbol or word or sentence in the performance of the speech act. To make it clear, Mey (2001:109) states that speech acts are produced in actual situations of language use by people having something in mind. From the actual situations of speech, Austin states that Speech act as an identification of the present speech situation with the speech situation indicated by performative sentence (Austin, 1962:13). From the statements above, The writer relates each other statements that speech act is the way speaker speaks something that influence to the listener’s act which is need a process of listener to interprets what the hidden meaning of the speaker’s say. To interprete the speech, it can be indicated by the time of speech is take place, where the situation and context may influence the meaning of the speech itself.

According to Austin (1962:13) there are 3 branches of speech act: Locutionary act, Illocutionary act and perlucotionary act. From the branches of speech act, Searle has done to do a research which focuses on illocutionary act, in his research, he classified the illocutionary acts into some parts. Searle (1999:148) classifies the branches of illocutionary act, such as: Assertives, commisives, directives, expressives and declatives. Then, the writer wants to analyze one of the branches of illocutionary act. In this research, the writer analyzes about assertive acts which focuses on the use of assertive act that uttered by protagonist characters.

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Talking about Assertive Act, Smith (1991:18) states that assertive is a statement when the speaker presents a proposition to representing the actual states of affairs of the world. Another statements about assertives, Dick (1993:208) argues that assertive has function to provide faithful representations of facts. The writer concludes that both of them are exactly same in giving a notion of assertive which the meaning is about the way someone propose someone else about representing the fact or belief. Thus, the writer thinks that assertive is an act where the speaker tells or says about truth without interfere other people right which has aimed to make the hearer believes to its truth.

Research about Assertive has been done in some fields, such as: In education (Hasanzadeh and Mahdinejad, Vol.22, No.1;Muthumanickam and Asokan, M. 2013;Rathee, 2015). In social (Eskin, 2003). In Psychology (Manesh et al, 2015., Krist, 2011., Elliot et al, 1990). In leadership (Lazenby, 1998). Knowing about this fact, the writer tries to do a research in linguistic field.

In linguistic field, there are some researches which analyze in some topics, such as: in speech (Fitriana, 2014;Putri, 2016). In debate setting (Yuyun, 2014). From both of them, they were analyzing in spoken text. Then, the writer tries to do a research which the data is obtained from written text. Thus the writer chooses a movie script as the object of analysis.

The writer finds two researches which used movie script as the object of analysis (Andriansyah, 2015;Viajeng et. al., 2015). From those two researches, they were focusing on the purpose of using Assertive acts. The writer finds the

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gaps between those two researches, the gaps are depicted on the problem that the writer wants to reveal and the character that the writer chooses. in this research, the writer analyses the types of Assertive Acts used by protagonist character, the assertive verbs used by the protagonist and the differences between those two protagonist character. The reason why the writer analyses about the types is she wants to know what the most types are used by the protagonist character, because it indicates the way of protagonist character in speak about the truth. Then, the writer wants to know what is assertive verbs are used by the protagonist that indicates the status of those assertion. After knowing the classification of types and its verbs, the writer wants to know what the differences between those two protagonist characters when applying assertive acts.

Thus, The writer finds that assertive is an interesting subject if it is used by protagonist character. Because commonly, protagonist character always speaks in a good utterances. So, it is about how if protagonist speaks the truths or their beliefs without interfere other people’s belief. Another uniqueness of this research is about the protagonist characters itself whom they are a demi god. As a protagonist and as a demi god, commonly, they speak well and polite. The problem which the writer reveals is to know how protagonist convinces their belief about the truth to other characters which can be indicated by the types and the assertive verbs of assertive Acts that the protagonist character used the most. From this issues, the writer wants to know what types of Assertive Acts are mostly used by Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson that is suitable with his and her characteristic and the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase

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when applying assertive acts. So, this research is conducted to examine about the used of Assertive Acts by protagonist characters.

1.2 Research Problem

The research is conducted to answer the problems which formulated into two following questions:

1. What are types of Assertive Acts used by protagonist character in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie?

2. What are assertive verbs used by protagonist character in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie”?

3. What are the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie”?

1.3 Research Objective

Based on the research problems above, the objectives of the study have aims to:

1. To describe what types of assertive acts that frequently used by protagonist characters in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie

2. To analyze about the assertive verbs that used by protagonist character in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie

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3. To explain about the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie”

1.4 Significance of The Research

In this study, the writer hopes this study can be able to help the readers in understanding about assertives acts and gives some informations about its relation between protagonist and assertive.

The significance of this research is analysis of Assertive acts, whereas it is one of the kinds of illocutionary acts. Thus, by doing this research, the writer hopes can make the reader enrich the knowledge especially in Assertive Acts which included some types and verbs which relates to the protagonist character and the writer hopes this study can be useful for the readers as a reference for conducting further study.

1.5 Scope and Limitation

The scope of this research is about assertive acts which is one of the branches of Illocutionary acts. The writer limits the analysis just focus on the types of assertive acts, the assertive verbs and the differences between protagonist characters.

The writer limits the object of analysis is only on Percy Jackson&The olympians: The Lightning Thief movie because as far as the writer know that percy jackson is the serial movie which has 4 series movie. There are some

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protagonist characters in Percy jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s movie, but the writer chooses two major characters in protagonist character. They are Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. The reason is because Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase have different characteristics.

1.6 Definition of Key Term

The writer gives some definition of key term to make clear and to avoid misunderstanding.

1. Assertive: Kinds of Illocutionary Act that states what the speaker believe to be the case or not (Yule, 1996:53)

2. Acts: a major division in a play that do through a behaviour (Cuddon, 1999:7)

3. Verbs: it deals with the event description or status of an assertion (Leech, 1983:205)

4. Protagonist: A protagonist is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama who can affect the main characters’ decisions. Protagonist usually gives greater variety to the dialog and action (Cuddon, 1999:706)

5. Character: Person in a play, novel, movie and etc. (Cuddon, 1999:126)

6. Percy Jackson & the olympians: The lightning thief’s movie: It is a first serie from Percy Jackson serial movie that directed and produced by Chrish Colombus. This movie is taken from the Percy Jackson novel series which is written by Rick Riordan.

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

In this chapter, the writer presents about some theories that related to the research entitled “Assertive Acts Used by Protagonist Characters in Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief’s Movie”. Those are the explanation of Pragmatics, Speech Act and Its Classification, Assertive Acts, Assertive Verbs, Percy Jackson&The Olympian: The Lightning Thief Movie and Related Studies.

2.1 Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a field of linguistics studying communication. Mey (2009:43) states that Pragmatics embrace a perspectives in language user, the language use and contexts of use in a communication. Concerning to the language use, Pragmatics seem to be a theory which focuse to the meaning of sentence or utterance which relates to the speaker and the motif of the speaker says about. In this case, Pragmatics can be seen as theory of language use which is considered to the who the speaker is, where the speaker takes place and what the speaker intends about.

Later on, Thomas (2003:18) argues that pragmatics focuse on the application of a language which consider to the context of a language is used. It is regarded to the contexts of use and its meaning. In the application of pragmatics, there are two scopes where the pragmatics is concerned to. The scopes are macro pragmatics and micro pragmatics. Macro and micro pragmatics are the scope

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where the pragmatics is used for, but the whole concept of pragmatics is intended to the use of language based on context

Paltridge (2006:33) adds that pragmatics is the study of meaning in relation to the context of speaking or writing. The context itself can be classified such as; social situational context, textual context and background knowledge context. In case of context, it is can not be separated with the speaker says and what the hearer gets because context influences the meaning of its utterance.

Some explanations about context are explained by the expert. Sowa (1995:86) states that context is such a complex of related ideas, in an idea can be contained some information in a package. In order to make it clear, He adds a statement about the notion of context as a concept of type motion, whose referent field contains more than one conceptual ideas that state the motion.

The other notion of context is stated by (Bosco et. all., 2004:467) that commonly, context is as same as with a related factors that contributes to the reconstruction of understanding about the intended meaning of what the speaker says. From all of the notions of context above, the writer gets the point that context is such an image of thought which contains some information within those thought that the hearer should be understood in the way to interpret the speaker wants or talks about. The notion of context can help the writer to do an analysis about the meaning under the utterances which the writer can relate based on the context in its movie to find the assertive verbs that the protagonist characters are used.

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To respon the Paltridge’s statement that context has a main role in communication to the way of understanding what the speaker says about. Yule (1996:3) states in Permana (2014:8) that generally, Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning, the study of how more gets communicated than is said, and the study of the expression of relative distance (closeness in physical, social, or conceptual). So, the writer concludes that pragmatics is a theory that has function to criticized about the meaning of a communication between the speaker (the writer) and the hearer (the reader) whether it is spoken or written.

2.3 Speech Act and its classification

Yule (1996:231) states that speech act emerges in Austin’s observation. Before stating about speech act, Austin provides a case of problem which provoke the appearances of speech act theory. Austin (1962:8) states that a sentence commonly used to state of affairs or state some facts, either it is true or false, But some sentences arise has not intended at all, has intended in a part or impart straight forward information about the fact. Thus, from these statement can be meant that a sentence seems as a form that might be contained an intended meaning.

Knowing about the fact that within a sentence might be contained some meanings. Then, The notion of speech act appears as the action performed in saying something (Austin, 1962:15). Austin (1962:107) classifies three distinct levels of action beyond the act of utterance itself; Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act and Perlocutionary Act.

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2.3.1 Locutionary Act

Paltridge (2006:34) states that locutionary act refers to the literal meaning of the actual words. To strengthen the meaning of locutionary act, Yule argues that locutionary act is the basic act of utterance (Yule, 1996:48). From this notion of locutionary act, the writer concludes that locutionary act is the act of meaning conventionally. It is the first level to indicates the meaning.

2.3.2 Illocutionary Act

According to Leech (1983:199) illocutionary act refers to an action of speak in saying something. From this statement, Tsohatzidis (1994:11) tries to makes it clearer about the notion of Illocutionary act. He states that illocutionary act is a performance of a speaker in uttering a sentence of his language that is essentially for knowing what the speaker meant in uttering that sentence. Thus, the writer concludes that illocutionary act is concerned to the meaning of what the speaker’s utterance.

Futhermore, John R. Searle, An American Philosopher, has been done to do a further developed research in speech act. He did a research which focuses on Illocutionary act. Searle (1979:12) classifies the illocutionary act into 5 classes; Representative or assertive, directive, commisive, expressive and declarative. the explanation of each classes are below:

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Representative or Assertive: the point of this category is to commit the speaker to say something truth that it fits to the world based on the verity. For Example: “the sun rises in the east”. (word to world)

Directive: it is such an act of the speaker in uttering something that has a sense to make the hearer to do something that suits with the speaker utterance (world to word)

Commisive: the point of this category is about the speaker is do to something in future action, such as: promising, offering and Etc. In case of commisive, the speaker commits to do something that necesarrily needs intention. (the speaker acts something by her/himself)

Expressive: it is about the way a speaker expresses their psychological states or feelings in the sincerity condition that has propositional content, such as: thanking, apologizing, condole and Etc.

Declarative: the point of this category is about the succesful performance of one of its member that says about the propositonal content that fits to the reality. In this case, declarative point is to change the world via utterances. (blessing, declaring, confirming ane Etc.)

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2.3.3 Perlocution Act

According to Paltridge (2006:34) Perlocution acts refers an effect of the speaker utterances. The effect can be seems by the hearer doing something or the hearer gets something (thought) which match to the speaker wants. it is such a result that caused by the speaker utterances (Devitt&Hanley, 2006:158)

2.4 Assertive Act

Assertive is one of the illocutionary act’s branches. It is the important point in communication because assertive act is available when it is necessary to make a commitment about the truth. In a movie, the argument of protagonist character usually denied whether it is true or false. In this problem, the protagonist character can use assertive act to make the other characters believe about the truly information.

According to Leech (1983:205) assertive acts refers to the condition when the speaker speaks about the truth based on the reality whether it is true or false. Smith (1991:18) supoorts the Leech’s statement that assertive is a statement when the speaker presents a proposition to representing the actual states of affairs of the world. The directions is word to world. It can be concluded that saying a word should be suited with the world or reality. According to Searle in Tarigan (2015:107) there are six types of assertive acts, such as:

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Inform: this type is used when the speaker inform something

Ex: she was busy last night

From this example, the speaker inform about the truth that she was busy last night

Suggest: it is used when the speaker gives a solution, suggest or advice

Ex: knowing you are tired, you should take a rest for a while

The example above can be seen that suggest is such a type of giving advice to someone based on the reality that he/she is actually tired.

Agree: this type used when someone agree to the opini of someone else. It is usually used when the other opini is as same as what the speaker perception

Ex: yaps, that’s right. She is the laziest girl in room.

It can be seen that the speaker is agree with someone’s opini. The speaker agrees because he/she knows that the actual fact says the truth.

Disagree: it is used when someone in the different opinion or different direction

Ex: I disagree with you. She does not do anything. She does not steal anything.

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Here, the speaker commits that the speaker disagree to the someone’s opini.

Confirm: this type is used when the speaker clarifies something

Ex: Honestly, i dont like his attitude, but, i know they are a kiddos then i should understand them.

The speaker understand it eventhough the actual fact says different, because some condition or term that needs to be understood.

Deny: it is used in condition when the speaker refuse something

Ex: i really dissapointed with you. I never trust you anymore. Because I said A and you said b to him. Why ?

The speaker dissapointed to someone else, because the speaker know the truth about something.

2.5 Assertive Verbs

Assertive verbs is about the status of the assertion. It refers to the event description (Leech, 1983:223) in Leech book, he distinct into some categories. The categories is explained below:

Publicly assertive verbs: It is used when the speaker speaks the assertion which is publicly known. The assertive acts are used; declair, proclaim, announce

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Privately assertive verbs : It is used when the speaker speaks the assertion privately and obliquely known. The assertive acts are used;

intimate, hint, imply

Confidently assertive verbs: It is used when the speaker confidently assert, the assertive acts might use, such as; affirm, aver, avouch, confirm, certify

Tentatively assertive verbs: It is used when the speaker asserts the tentative assertion, the assertive acts are possibly used, such as; suggest, hypothesize, postulate

2.6 Percy Jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Movie

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s movie is a first serie from Percy Jackson serial movie that is directed and produced by Chrish Colombus. This movie is taken from the Percy Jackson’s novel series which is written by Rick Riordan.

This movie tells about a protagonist character named Percy Jackson as the son of Poseidon who accused as the thief of Zeus’s masterbolt. As a protagonist character, Percy needs to persuade and convince other characters to stop blaming on him, because the reality says that he does not the thief of the masterbolt. But at the end of this movie, Percy Jackson found the lost masterbolt and succesfully to convince other character that he does not the thief of Zeus’s masterbolt.

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2.7 Review of Previous Studies

There are some previous studies that related to this study. The first is a study entitled “The Study on The Assertive Illocutionary Acts of The Main Character in My Sister’s Keeper Movie” by Indraswuri et. all (2015). The aim of this study is to explore what is the act of assertives that is used by the main character and what is the intended meaning of the utterances of the main character in My Sister’s Keeper movie. In order to do their research, they used qualitative method as their research design. The result of the first problem is shown on the categories of assertive acts that is used by the main characters. The most category that is used by the main characters is asserting and the less category is suggesting. From the finding of the categories, the they analyze the intended meaning by relating those categories with the context that tightly influence the intended meaning of assertive sentence. The intended meaning shows how Anna as the main character straightly tells about the truth condition of herself who must donate her kidney to her sister. She clearly asserts her mother to convince that there is no one needs to be sacrificed for her sister’s life.

The second previous study is from Andriansyah (2015). The tittle of his study is “Representative and Directive Acts in The Baytown Outlaw’s Movue”. Representatives here is the synonim of assertive. The problem thatb Andriansyah reveals are to find out what representative illocutionary force are used by Brick Oodie and Mcqueen Oodie and the purpose of using those representative acts. In analyzing the problems, Andriansyah applied qualitative method while analyzing this study. The results of this study are; Representative illocutionary force that

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shown in this movie are stating, claiming, asserting, predicting, suggesting, concluding, describing. The purposes of using representative in this movie are to inform news, to state curiosity, to relaxe, to thank, to discuss and to convince someone. In order to convince someone, Brick Oodie and Mcqueen Oodie mostly used representative is to negotiate other person to belief in them just because to get what Brick Oodie and Mcqueen Oodie wants.

The third previous study is from Putri (2016) with the title “Representatives Illocutionary Acts that Used by Barack Obama in Presidential Election Debate 2008-2012 Period”. The problem that she reveals is about the act of representative that is shown by Barack Obama and the function in using those kinds of representative acts. The result is shown by the diagram that Inform as one of the kinds of representative acts becomes the type that is mostly used by Barack Obama in his speech. The function that Barack Obama mostly used is to assert the audience.

From all previous studies above, the writer finds the differences which makes this research is different than others. It is about the problems that the writer reveals. From those previous studies above, most of them are finds what the purpose and the intended meaning in assertive acts that is used by the main character. Thus, in this research, the writer interested to find out the types of assertive acts and the assertive verbs that is used by protagonist characters. The other difference is about the object of analysis. Most of them chose movie as the object of analysis but they do not consider the relation of those movie with assertive acts.

CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This part discusses the methodology of the research. It consist of research design, research instrument, subject of the research, data and data source, data collection and data analysis.

3.1 Research Design

Research design was the conceptual structure within which research was conducted. The conceptual structure can be seen as an outline of the writer in which she arranged the procedure and technique that was used for gathering information. According to Khotari (1990:27) Research design is such a plan to do a research and such a brief foundation to do a research. Thus, the writer implied that research design was a procedural step to do research which was importantly needed by every researcher before doing a research.

Knowing that research design was a brief arrangement of plan. It meant that resarch design should be suitable with the problems that the study would be analyzed. Considering about that, the purposes of this study are to find out what types of assertive acts that used by protagonist characters, to analyzed about what assertive acts are used by protagonist characters and to described the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s movie. Thus, the suitable rsearch design which related to to the purpose of this study is qualitative content analysis.

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Qualitative content analysis is a method for systematically describing the meaning of qualitative data (Schreier, 2012:170). Qualitative data is less of numeral and statistical but it is mostly in word, text and so on. Then, content analysis is an analysis which focusing to the interpreting the data within the content of such text. Thus, the writer used qualitative content analysis because the main data of this study is a movie script which included to the kinds of text and the analysis was interpreting the content within a text.

In the way the writer formulated the answer of the problems of analysis, the writer also used descriptive research design to depicted and to described the precise illustration of what the analysis is. As the name of the approach, descriptive research dealed with describing variables. Thus, descriptive research design was importantly used to describe the result of analysis is about.

3.2 Subject of The Study

The subject of this study is protagonist character. There are some characters which included to protagonist character, but the writer chooses two major characters only. They are Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. Those two characters are the major protagonist characters in Percy Jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Movie. The reason why the writer chooses those two characters because the different characteristic of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. The differentiation appeared in the way Percy and Annabeth speak. The Percy’s way of speaking is softer than Annabeth. Thus, the writer interested to

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find out what types of assertive acts and assertive verbs are used by those two characters.

The second reasons why the writer chooses percy jackson as the subject of analysis is because Percy Jackson were accused as the thief of Zeus’s masterbolt. But in fact, he did not steal the masterbolt. This is suitable to the problem that the writer revealed, because the writer wanted to know how Percy Jackson convinced other character about the fact. The writer chose Annabeth Chase because she believed that Percy did not still the masterbolt and she helped him to convince other character to believe the reality.

3.3 Data and Data Sources

The data source of this research was taken from movie script of Percy Jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie. This movie was produced in 2010 which directed and produced by Chris Colombus. This movie is the first serie of Percy Jackson serial movie. Percy Jackson&The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie was adopted from the percy jackson novel which written by Rick Riordan. The movie script is available in 122 pages. The writer have the PDF file that help the writer wrote the analysis without retyping.

http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/The_Lightning_Thief.pdf is the link where the writer downloaded the movie script. It was downloaded on December, 13rd 2016. The writer also has the printed file to help the writer accurately analyzed. The data of this research was taken from the utterances of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase which is written in the movie script.

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3.4 Research Instrument

Qualitative studies tend to use human instrument rather than otehr tools or machines (Litosseliti, 2010:29). Thus, the instrument of this research was the researcher herself by finding, analyzing and classifying the types of assertive acts, the assertive verbs and the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assetive acts in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’s movie. The other instrument was the movie script of its movie and also laptop to helped the researcher watched the movie.

3.5 Technique of Data Collection

The data collected from the utterances of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase along the movie. There are some steps that the writer used to collect the data:

1. Downloading the movie entitled “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief”

2. Downloading the movie script and print it out

3. Selecting of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase’s utterances

4. Classifying into two major classes; Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances.

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3.6 Technique of Data Analysis

After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed the data into some steps:

1. underlining Percy Jackson utterances and Annabeth Chase utterances

2. calculating the total of each utterances

3. classifying Percy Jackson utterances and Annabeth Chase utterances into the six types of assertive acts

4. classying those utterances which contains of assertive acts into the four kinds of assertive verbs

5. turning the classifying into the table

6. defining the relation of each into the analysis

7. explaining the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts.

CHAPTER IV

FINDING AND DISCUSSION

This chapter depicts the results of the research analysis which is mentioned as Findings. Afterward, there is also the discussion of the research findings.

4.1 Findings

This chapter where all of the data are processed. The writer divides this chapter into two points. The first point contains of the finding of this research by answering the first and the second research question. The first research question is what are types of assertive acts used by protagonist characters in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie and the second research question is what are assertive verbs used by protagonist characters in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie. Meanwhile, the second point contains the findings of this research by answering the third research question that is what are the differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying assertive acts in Percy Jackson & The olympians: The Lightning Thief’s Movie.

4.1.1 Types and Assertive Verbs of Assertive Acts

In this point, the types of assertive acts is analyzed by using Searle’s Theory. While, the assertive verbs of assertive acts is analyzed by using Leech’s Theory. Based on the data analysis, the writer finds132 data of Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances which contains of types and assertive verbs of assertive acts. The data presents in total number which is shown by the

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two diagrams below. The two diagrams below show the data of Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances which contains of types and assertive verbs of assertive acts. The types of assertive acts are divided into six types based on Searle’s Theory and the assertive verbs of assertive acts are divided into four classes based on Leech’s Theory. The diagrams are below:

Figure 1: Types and Assertive Verbs of Assertive Acts that Used by Percy Jackson

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The diagrams above shows about the finding of types and assertive verbs that is used by protagonist characters. The first diagram shows Percy Jackson’s utterances which contains of assertive acts. According to Searle in Tarigan (2015:107) types of assertive acts are able in six types, such as: inform, suggest, agree, disagree, confirm and deny. Meanwhile, the assertive verbs has four classes, such as: publicly, confidently, tentatively and privately (Leech, 1983:223). From the first diagram, the inform type has four assertive verbs, they are informing publicly, informing confidently, informing tentatively and informing privately. The suggest type has no assertive verbs. The agree type has two assertive verbs, agreeing confidently and agreeing privately. The fourth type is disagree type. The first diagram shows that disagree type has three assertive verbs, they are disagreeing publicly, disagreeing confidently and disagreeing privately. The next type is confirm type. It has one assertive verbs, it is confirming confidently assertive verbs. The last type of assertive acts that is shown by the first diagram is deny type. The deny type has two assertive verbs, they are denying publicly and denying confidently.

The second diagram shows the types and assertive verbs that is used by Annabeth Chase character. The first type is inform type. It has four assertive verbs, they are informing publicly, informing confidently, informing tentatively and informing privately. The second type is suggest type. It has one assertive verbs, it is suggesting tentatively. Then, the third type is agree type. It has two assertive verbs. They are agreeing confidently and agreeing privately. Disagree type is the fourth type of assertive acts. It has three assertive verbs, they are

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disagreeing publicly, disagreeing confidently and disagreeing privately. The next type is confirm type. it has two assertive verbs. They are confirming confidently and confirming privately. The last type that is used by Annabeth chase is deny type. This type has one assertive verbs. It is denying confidently.

In the first diagram, Percy Jackson uses more informing publicly as the type and assertive verbs of assertive acts in the way he asserts someone else than other types and assertive verbs of assertive acts. The total amount of informing publicly is 39 data that out of 71 data. The second number of rank is Disagreeing confidently which consists of 7 data out of 71 data. The third number of rank are denying publicly and informing confidently which shows 5 data out of 71 data. The forth number of rank is confirming confidently shows 4 data out of 71 data. The fifth number of rank is informing tentatively which has 3 data that out of 71 data. The sixth number of rank consist of agreeing confidently and denying confidently. Each of them are available in 2 data that out of 71 data. The last number of rank are informing privately, Agreeing privately, disagreeing publicly and disagreeing privately which each of them has one data that out of 71 data.

The second diagram shows the Annabeth Chase’s utterances. the first number of rank in Annabeth Chase’s diagram is as same as with the first number of rank of Percy Jackson’s diagram. It is informing publicly type. Then, the second number of rank is informing confidently type which has 9 data out of 61 data. The third number of rank is confirming confidently type. It has 7 data that out of 61 data. The fourth place is informing privately type that consists of 6 data out of 61 data. The fifth number of rank are informing tentatively type and

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disagreeing confidently type. Each of them have 3 data out of 61 data. The sixth number of rank are agreeing confidently type, denying confidently type and confirming privately type. each of them have 2 data out of 61 data and the last number of rank are agreeing privately, disagreeing publicly, suggesting tentatively and disagreeing privately which each of them has 1 data out of 61 data.

The types and assertive verbs of assertive acts that is used by protagonist character are explained in detail below.

4.1.1.1 Inform

Inform type is the most type that is used by Percy Jackson and Anabeth Chase. The writer finds 89 informing utterances from both of them. Percy Jackson has 48 data that out of 71 data and Annabeth Chase has 41 data that out of 61 data.

This type is used by the speaker when the speaker wants to inform something, to tell about the truth or to give explanation about the important things. In Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances, inform type has four assertive verbs. They are informing publicly type, informing confidently type, informing tentatively type and informing privately type. The assertive verbs of this type are explained below.

4.1.1.1.1 Informing Publicly

Informing publicly type is used by the speaker when the speaker informs about the truth or something important that is publicly known.

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Publicly assertive verbs is measured by the way the speaker informs it. The speaker commonly declairs or proclaims or announces something that based on the truth condition. Then, Publicly assertive verbs also can be measured by the situation of context of the speaker takes place. In informing publicly type, the writer finds 39 utterances that out of 71 utterances of Percy Jackson’s utterances and 23 utterances from 61 utterances of Annabeth Chase’s utterances. The detailed data is in appendix. Here the writer serves 3 data that to be presented below.

Data 1:

Percy : My name is Percy Jackson. Until a few months ago, i was a student here at Yancy Academy. The kind of place where parents send their “troubled” kids when no one else will take them. (PJ/P.1/C.3)

The types of assertive acts that is used in this data is inform type. This data is found in the early talk of Percy Jackson when Percy informs to the hearer about who is he and tell the truth about the reason why he moves to Yancy Academy.

The assertive verbs that is used in this data is publicly assertive verbs. Publicly assertive verbs can be used when someone or the speaker proclaims something, declares the truth or announces the important thing. It is shown by the sentence“My name is Percy Jackson.” this sentence depicts when the speaker declairs his name to the hearer in the beginning of movie. The same data which depicts an informing publicly type is below.

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Data 2:

Percy : good Stuff. What is it?

Annabeth : Ambrosia and nectar. Food of God (AC/P.23/C.1)

The data 2 describes when Annabeth gives a drink to Percy that purposely to improve Percy’s condition that after 3 days of being sick. Then, Percy feels better than before. He asks to Annabeth about what that stuff is. Then, Annabeth informs Percy that the drink is a food of god that made by ambrosia and nectar.

Based on the Annabeth’s utterance in the data 2, the writer classifies it into inform type of assertive acts and publicly assertive verbs because the speaker informs something true to the hearer by declairing to the hearer that ambrosia and nectar are obviously the kinds of food of god. The next point serves a data of Percy Jackson’s utterances.

Data 3:

Annabeth : Surrender...

VOICE (V.O) : Go to the water, Percy... The water...

Percy : You drool when you’re impressed. Wipe your mouth.

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This data tells about a scene when Annabeth hurts Percy’s body until bleeding. This scene is such a proof about the true story that Percy is a son of Poseidon. Then, the distant voice comes again and says that Percy should move to the water. After hearing that voice, Percy moves to the water. Amazingly, all the injuries in his body are recovery soon. So, Percy believes and declares that he is a son of poseidon, a god of water. The writer indicates this data that the data is included to inform type of assertive acts. It can be seen from this utterance “POSEIDON!” in which Percy tells the truth that he is a demigod whom son of Poseidon, a god of water.

The utterance “POSEIDON” that is said by Percy Jackson. It is included to publicly assertive verbs. The writer indicates by the way the speaker utters this utterance. The speaker (Percy) declairs who he really is. Thus, it can be such an indication of publicly assertive verbs which publicly assertive verbs can be measured from the way the speaker says about the truth or from the situation of where the utterance takes place.

4.1.1.1.2 Informing Confidently

Inform type is one of the types of assertive acts which has a meaning of a condition when the speaker tells about something to the hearer. Then, confidently assertive verbs is the second kinds of assertive verbs where the speaker speaks something which is espoused by the notion or confirmation. Confidently assertive verbs can be indicated by the way

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the speaker says the truth. Usually, confidently assertive verbs can be detected when the speaker affirms or confirms or certifies about the truth. Thus, Informing confidently is used when the speaker informs something about the truth while giving such a notion or confirmation about the truth.

Informing confidently type occupies in the third place of Percy Jackson’s diagram and the second place of Annabeth Chase’s diagram. The writer found 5 data of Percy Jackson’s utterances that out of 71 data. Meanwhile, Annabeth Chase has 9 data that out of 61 data. Here, the writer gives 2 data which depicted the informing confidently utterances.

Data 4:

Annabeth : HELLHOUNDS!

Grover : How did they get in?

Annabeth : I dont know... The camp is under a veil of protection against underworld forces...

Someone must have lifted it... (AC/P.39/C.3)

The types of assertive acts that is used in this data is inform type. It can be indicated from the word “Someone must have lifted it”. This quotation indicates that Annabeth informs to Grover that everybody should cross the veil of protection before entering the camp.

The assertive verbs that is used in this data is confidently assertive verbs. It is shown when Annabeth gives a notion about the camps protection which not everyone can cross it easily. The confidently assertive verbs is indicated by the word “The camp is under a veil of

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protection against underworld forces”. Those quotation is such a notion and an affirmation of the true condition about the camp. Then, the writer classifies this data into the informing confidently type because the speaker informs something true that based on the real condition and gives a notion about that condition.

Data 5:

Percy : You both need to wake up! You’re in some kind of trance... I was too... Now listen to me! Focus! We’re trapped. In the land of lotus easters. (PJ/P.88/C.3)

This data tells about a scene when Annabeth and Grover is in drunk condition after eat a lotus flower. Lotus flower is a dessert which is given freely from the bellhop that has an effect to make the person who eats those lotus flower become unconciously having fun forever at Lotus Casino. Lotus Casino is a place where there is full of gamble. Thus, Annabeth, Grover and Percy become unconcious with their own condition. But, Poseidon reminds Percy to wake up and out from lotus casino quickly. Then, Percy awakes and he reminds Annabeth and Grover too.

From the story line above, the writer classifies this data into inform type of assertive acts and confidently assertive verbs. Inform type is indicated by this sentence “You’re in some kind of trance”. From these quotation, the writer analyzes that the speaker (Percy) informs Grover and Annabeth that they are in a condition of trance. Meanwhile, the sentence “We’re trapped. In the land of lotus easters” indicates that the

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speaker certifies about the truth condition to the hearer. The speaker affirms about what kind of trance that they were. Then, the speaker confidently certifies what kind of those trance that happen to the hearer by giving a confirmation that they were in trapped, located at Lotus Casino or Lotus Easters.

4.1.1.1.3 Informing Privately

Informing privately type is used when the speaker informs something while gives a hint about the object of information. The speaker does not inform directly but the speaker implies to something else which still has correlation with the true information is about. Privately assertive verbs can be indicated by the way the speaker asserts the hearer, the speaker may intimate, hint or imply about the information is about.

The writer finds the data of informing privately type in Annabeth Chase utterances and in Percy Jackson utterances. Informing privately type places in the forth number of rank in Annabeth Chase’s diagram which has 6 data out of 61 data and places the last number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram which has 1 data out of 71 data. The writer serves one fragment of informing privately type. The detail data of informing privately can be found in appendix.

Data 6:

Annabeth : My mother is the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy.You know what that means? I never lose. (AC/P.34/C.4)

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The data above occurs when Annabeth wants to assert Percy in a battle race about who Annabeth actually is. In this situation, Percy is a new comer in the half blood camp whom knows nothing about everyone in this camp. So, Annabeth tells Percy about who is she and about her ability. Thus, at this moment, Annabeth warns Percy that she can not accept any insulting about her battle ability.

The type of assertive acts that is used in this data is Inform type. It can be seen by the utternaces “My mother is the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy”. Those utterance shows that the speaker informs the hearer about who her mother truly is. Thus, The writer classifies it into inform type of assertive acts.

The assertive verbs that is used in this data is privately assertive verbs. it is shown by the utterance “You know what that means? I never lose”. Those utterances show how Annabeth asserts Percy that purposely to meke him believe that she never lose but Annabeth does not assert directly. She gives a hint in the sentence “You know what that means?”

That refers to the sentence “I never lose”. In the other word, Annabeth wants to assert Percy to make him believe that she always win and never lose in a battle race. From the analysis, the writer classifies this data into Informing privately type.

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4.1.1.1.4 Informing Tentatively

Informing tentatively type is used when the speaker asserts something to the hearer by informing the fact. In the way the speaker informs about the truth, the speaker hypothesizes or suggests the hearer. The writer finds that the informing tentatively type occurs in Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances. The writer gets the data of Informing tentatively type around 6 data that out of 132 data. Each of Percy and Annabeth has the same amount of data. It has 3 data of each of them. The writer gives two data that represent the informing tentatively type.

Data 7:

Annabeth : Do you even know how to get there? Percy : If i had to guess, I’d say: Down

(PJ/P.43/C.4)

The types of assertive acts that is used in this data is Inform type. The writer indicates the inform type from the sentence “I’d say: Down”. In this sentence, the way the speaker asserts the hearer is by informing something. Percy as the speaker, answers the Annabeth’s question by informing about the way to go to meet hades. It is by going down.

The assertive verbs that is used by the speaker is tentatively assertive verbs. The writer classifies this data into tentatively assertive verbs because from the sentence “if i had to guess” can be such an

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indication of suggestion or hypothesis in the way the speaker asserts the hearer.

Data 8:

Percy : Once Zeus finds out I’m not the lightning thief, word will spread fast. Then hades will kill my mother.

Ares : True... (PJ/P.72/C.2)

The data describes about a scene when Percy Jackson answers Ares’ question about how if Percy fails to convince Hades. Then, Percy informs to Ares that Hades will kill his mother. Thus, the writer classifies this data into inform type of assertive acts.

The writer analyzes that from the word “will”, it can indicate a tentatively assertive verbs because the speaker hypothesizes about what the speaker will do for the next.

4.1.1.2 Suggest

Suggest type is the second type of assertive acts. It places in the last number of rank in the Annabeth Chase’s diagram. As the last number of rank, the writer finds 1 data out from 61 utterances which is included to suggest type of assertive acts. But, the writer does not find any data of suggest type in Percy Jackson’s utterances.

As the last number of rank in Annabeth Chase’s diagram. It means that Annabeth Chase uses this type is lower than other type of assertive acts. Annabeth uses suggest type when she gives a solution, suggest or advice to herself or to

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someone else. Suggest type is used by the speaker that purposely to make others believe in the speaker’s opinion by giving a solution, suggest or advice. The writer found that suggest type has 1 assertive verbs. It is suggesting tentatively assertive verbs. It is described in the following point.

4.1.1.2.1 Suggesting Tentatively

Suggesting tentatively assertive verbs is used when the speaker suggests something to the hearer by giving a hypothesize, advice or suggestion. Tentatively assertive verbs can be indicated by the way the speaker asserts someone else, the speaker suggests, hypothesizes or postulates to make the hearer believe in what the speaker says about. The writer finds 1 data which is included to suggesting tentatively type. The data is below.

Data 9:

Percy : Where am I?

Grover : The infimary, You’ve been unconciousness for three days.

Annabeth : Drink this, It’ll make you feel better.

Percy sniffs it, not sure. (AC/P.22/C.7)

The data 9 tells about a scene when Percy awakes from his coma around three days after he fights with Minotaur. Then, Annabeth gives a solution and advice that make Percy feels better by giving a drink. The drink is made of ambrosia and nectar. Thus, by the way Annabeth gives a solution. The writer classifies the Annabeth’s utterance to the suggest type

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of assertive acts. Meanwhile, the assertive verbs that is used by Annabeth Chase is tentatively assertive verbs. the writer indicates it from the sentence “It’ll make you feel better” that represents a suggestive sentence to make the hearer believe in what the speaker says about.

4.1.1.3 Agree

Agree type is the third type of assertive acts which occupies the last number of rank in Annabeth’s diagram and the forth number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram. The writer finds 6 data that out of 132 utterances. In Percy Jackson’s utterances, the writer finds 3 data out of 71 data. Meanwhile, In Annabeth Chase’s utterances, the writer finds 3 data that out of 61 data.

Agree type is the infrequently type that is used by Percy Jackson. while, Annabeth Chase uses it more frequent than Percy Jackson in the way she asserts someone else. Agree type is used when the speaker convinces the hearer by giving an approval of someone’s opinion. The speaker agrees the other opinion that based on the fact. In this type, agree type has two assertive verbs from Percy Jackson’s utterances and Annabeth Chase’s utterances. They are agreeing confidently and agreeing privately. The assertive verbs of this type are explained below.

4.1.1.3.1 Agreeing Confidently

Agreeing confidently type is used when the speaker agrees to someone’s opinion that purposely to make the hearer believe about what

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speaker confirms about the information by giving such an explanation, affirmation or confirmation which is included to the indication of confidently assertive verbs. Confidently assertive verbs can be indicated by the speaker asserts someone else. The speaker affirms, confirms, certifies or aver about the information.

Based on the data, agreeing confidently type has 2 data of Percy Jackson utterances and has 2 data of Annabeth Chase utterances. Here, the writer serves 2 data of agreeing confidently type.

Data 10:

Annabeth : you drank the ambrosia ...

Percy : But you didn’t know that when you gave it to me

Annabeth : women’s intuition

Percy : Intuition?, you bet my life on intuition? Percy : I get the sense that you don’t like me very

much

Annabeth : It’s possible, I mean... Our parents hate each other (AC/P.38/C.6)

From the data above, Annabeth shows that she agrees with Percy’s opinion that she does not like him very much. It is shown by the sentence

“It’s possible”. Knowing about this, the writer classifies these utterance into the agree type of assertive acts. After that, in the next sentence, Annabeth affirms her statement that her parent and Percy’s parent were not like each other. It can be seen from the sentence “our parents hate

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each other”. Thus, the writer classifies the Annabeth’s utterance above into agreeing confidently type because Annabeth certifies her agreement about Percy’s opinion with an affirmation about the fact is about.

Data 11:

Grover : Hey, Im your protector. Im not supposed to trust anybody who gets close to you. Even Her.

Percy : No wonder....

Grover : Uncalled for, totally uncalled for

Annabeth : Grover right, i really didn’t like you at first. I was a little jealous... competitive...

but that’s different now.... (AC/P.78/C.8) This data describes when grover can not trust anyone to keep percy safe even to Annabeth because she almost killed Percy. Then, Annabeth agrees about Grover’s statement that she can not keep Percy safe. It is showed by the sentence “Grover right”. Then, she affirms about Grover’s opinion that she does not like percy. It can be seen by the sentence “i really didn’t like you at first. I was a little jealous... competitive...”. From this sentence, the writer classifies it into agreeing confidently type because Annabeth agrees with Grover’s statement and she gives some affirmation about it.

4.1.1.3.2 Agreeing Privately

Agreeing privately type is used when the speaker agrees with someone’s opinion but the speaker does not agree directly. The speaker gives a hint or implies to something which has a meaning as an agreement

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about the information is about. Agreeing privately type occupies the last number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram and Annabeth Chase’s diagram. Each of them have 1 data out of 132 data. Thus, the writer serves a data of agreeing privately types below.

Data 12:

Percy : why did Brunner send you with me? Grover : to keep you safe

Percy : you’re gonna keep me safe?

Grover : what’s funny

Percy : Nothing. It’s Just... Well you- -

(PJ/P.12/C.9)

From the data above, the types of assertive acts that is used by Percy Jackson is Agree type. It is shown by the sentence “Well you”. Percy agrees with Grover that Grover gonna be his protector but Percy did not agree directly. Therefore, the writer classifies it into privately assertive verb. It is because Percy gives expression about his uncertainty as a hint that he does not really sure that Grover can safe him. But in the end, Percy agrees it. Thus, the writer classifies this data into agreeing privately type.

4.1.1.4 Disagree

Disagree type is the forth type of assertive acts that is used by the speaker when the speaker disagrees with someone’s opinion because the opinion might not be correct with the truth. Thus, the speaker disagrees to make the hearer believe with the truly fact is about. As the types of assertive acts, Disagree type is

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usually used to make others believe with the truth without interfere other opinions.

The writer finds 9 data that out of 71 data in Percy Jackson’s utterances. Meanwhile, in Annabeth Chase’s utterances, the writer finds 5 data that out of 61 data. Disagree type has 3 assertive verbs. They are disagreeing publicly, disagreeing confidently and disagreeing privately. From those three assertive verbs, the most kind of assertive verbs after publicly assertive verbs that is used by Percy Jackson is disagreeing confidently type which has 7 data out of 71 data. The writer explains it below.

4.1.1.4.1 Disagreeing Publicly

Disagreeing publicly type is occured when the speaker disagrees with someone’s opinion by declairing or announcing about the fact is about. Disagreeing publicly types occupies the last number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram and Annabteh Chase’s diagram with appearing 2 data that out of 132 data. The writer serves a data below

Data 13:

Manager : You... You... killed her...You killed your own mother

Manager : Murderer! Percy : No, Im not.... (PJ/P.60/C.5)

It describes a scene when Percy disagrees with the manager’s opinion because Percy was accused as the murderer of Sally (Percy’s

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mother). The type that is used in this data is disagree type. It is shown by the sentence “No, Im not...”. These sentence depicts how Percy asserts someone else that he is not the murderer of his own mother. Thus, the writer classifies it into disagree type of asseertive acts. Then, the assertive verbs that is used in the data above is publicly assertive verbs, because the speaker (Percy) declairs it directly that he is not the murderer.

4.1.1.4.2 Disagreeing Confidently

Disagreeing confidently type is the most assertive verbs after publicly assertive verbs that is used by Percy Jackson. It places the second number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram with 7 data out of 71 data. Meanwhile, in the Annabeth Chase’s diagram, it places the fifth number of rank which appears 3 data out of 61 data.

Disagreeing confidently type is used when the speaker disagrees to someone’s opinion which does not fits with the fact. Therefore, the speaker gives some confirmation or affirmation about the truth. Thus, the writer indicates the disagreeing confidently type by the way the speaker asserts someone else about the truth, the speaker gives confirmation or explanation.

Data 14:

Drew :You’re the one who should keep your mouth shut, Jackson. If you weren’t so busy kissing Brunner’s ass, we wouldn’t be having a quiz tomorrow.

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Drew : Not all of us can get a fancy tutor by pretending we have dyslexia.

Percy :Im not pretending. I mix things up. Like right now, i could swear your dick is where your headd is supposed to be.

(PJ/P.5/C.4)

The data above draws when Draw accuses Percy that he pretends to have a dyslexia. Then, Percy disagrees with Drew’s opinion. It can be seen from the sentence “Im not pretending”. Thus, the writer classifies those sentence into disagree type of assertive acts. Meanwhile, the assertive verbs that is used by Percy when he disagrees to Drew’s opinion is Confidently assertive verbs. Confidently assertive verbs can be measured by the way the speaker asserts about the truth by giving a confirmation or Etc. In this data, Percy asserts the hearer that actually he does not pretend to be dyslexia by giving a supporting reason or confirmation about the truth condition. It can be seen from the sentence “I mix things up. Like right now, i could swear your dick is where your head is supposed to be.” Thus, the writer classifies this data into disagreeing confidently type. The writer gives a data that shows when Annabeth Chase applies the disagreeing confidently type.

Data 15:

Annabeth : Excuse me?!

Grover : Nothing, Hormones. Sorry. Percy : UP THERE!

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Annabeth : Not really, it’s 40 feet in the air. The place is filled with tourist and security guards.

Are we supposed to just jump up and grab it? (AC/P.62/C.5)

The data 15 tells when Percy Jackson wants to take the second pearl. The pearl is on the head of statue with the height around 40 feet in the air. Grover says that it is too easy to take the pearl, but Annabeth totally disagrees with Grover’s opinion.

The types of assertive acts that is used by Annabeth in this data is disagree type. It can be seen by the sentence “Not Really”. It shows that Annabeth disagrees with Grover’s opinion. Meanwhile, the assertive verbs that is used by Annabeth Chase in the way she disagrees to Grover is confidently assertive verbs. it is shown by the explanation about the real condition that is proven by this sentence “It’s 40 feet in the air. The place is filled with tourist and security guards.”Thus, the writer classifies those Annabeth Chase’s utterance into disagreeing confidently type.

4.1.1.4.3 Disagreeing Privately

Disagreeing privately type is used when the speaker disagrees with someone’s opinion but the speaker does not say it directly. The speaker gives a hint or implies to something that refers to the disagreement. The way the speaker implies, can be included into the indication of privately assertive verbs.

Disagreeing privately type occupies the last number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram and Annabeth Chase’s diagram. In Percy

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Jackson’s utterances, it appears only 1 data of 71 data and also 1 data of 61 data in Annabeth Chase’s utterances. Thus, the writer gives 1 data of disagreeing privately. The data is below.

Data 16:

Grover : I can’t let you do this

Percy : I wasn’t asking for permission

Grover : I mean, i can’t let you go by yourself. I’m your protector. I’m going with you.

Percy : I dont need any help. This is something i have to do alone.

Annabeth : we weren’t asking for permission

Percy : Ealier today you wanted to kill me, now you want to risk your life to help me?

(PJ/P.43/C.10)

This data draws when Grover and Annabeth want to accompany Percy to meet hades. But, Percy disagrees with Annabeth’s and Grover’s idea that they would accompany him. The type that is used in this data is disagree type of assertive acts and the assertive verbs that is used in this data is privately assertive verbs. The writer classifies this data into disagreeing privately because the speaker (Percy) does not say his disagreement directly. But, he used another sentence that implies to his disagreement. It can be seen from the sentence “earlier today you wanted to kill me, now you want to risk your life to help me?”. From this sentence, the writer analyzes by relating this sentence into the context of situation. It is happened when Percy disagrees with Grover’s and Annabeth’s idea that

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they would accompany him to meet hades. But, at that moment, Percy does not want to interrupt their ideas by saying his disagreement directly. Percy chooses to say it indirectly, by saying another utterance that refers to his mean.

4.1.1.5 Confirm

Confirm type is the fifth types of assertive acts which occupies the second number of rank in Annabeth Chase’s diagram and the fourth number of rank in Percy Jackson’s diagram. In Percy Jackson’s utterances, the writer finds 4 data that out of 71 data. Meanwhile, in Annabeth Chase’s utterances, the writer finds 9 data that out of 61 data.

Confirm type is used when the speaker clarifies something about the truth that purposely to make the hearer believes without interrupt other people opinion. In Annabeth Chase’s utterances, confirm type has 2 assertive verbs. They are confirming confidently and confirming privately. While, In Percy Jackson’s utterances, confirm type has 1 assertive verbs. It is confirming confidently. The explanation about those two assertive verbs are below.

4.1.1.5.1 Confirming Confidently

Confirming confidently type is used when the speaker clarifies something that is supported by some confimation or affirmation. Confidently assertive verbs means that the speaker asserts the hearer by confirming something. it can be indicated by the way the speaker clarifies,

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

This chapter is the last chapter. It presents the conclusion as the result of

this analysis. Futhermore, it also contains suggestion for further research to

develop knowledge related to assertive acts.

5.1 CONCLUSION

The writer analyzes the types of assertive acts by using Searle’s theory.

While, the writer analyzes the assertive verbs by using Leech’s theory. From the

finding of the first and the second research problem, the writer finds the

differences which appears between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in

applying assertive acts. The result from the finding and discussion are simply

explained below.

There are 5 types of assertive acts that is used by Percy Jackson character

in 71 utterances. The types are (1) Inform, (2) agree, (3) Disagree, (4) confirm and

(5) deny. But, there are 6 types of assertive acts that used by Annabeth Chase in

62 utterances. The types are (1) Inform, (2) suggest, (3) agree, (4) disagree, (5)

confirm and (6) deny. The most types of assertive acts that is used by protagonist

characters is inform type. While, the less types of assertive acts that is used by

protagonist character is suggest type. All types that is used by Percy Jackson and

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There are 4 kinds of assertive verbs that is used by Percy Jackson and

Annabeth Chase. They are (1) publicly, (2) confidently, (3) privately and (4)

tentatively. The most kinds of assertive verbs that is used by Percy Jackson and

Annabeth Chase is publicly assertive verbs. Whereas, the less kinds of assertive

verbs that used by Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase is tentatively assertive

verbs.

The differences between Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in applying

assertive acts are shown by the types of assertive acts and assertive verbs that they

used in their dialogue. Percy Jackson tends to use disagree type and deny type of

assertive acts. While, Annabeth Chase tends to use confirm type of assertive acts.

Then, The assertive verbs that is used the most by Percy Jackson is publicly

assertive verbs and The assertive verbs that is used the most by Annabeth Chase is

confidently assertive verbs. Hence, the results of this research adds a new result

that the strong and wise characteristic of Annabeth Chase is likely to clarifies the

truth by giving some evidences or confirmations about the truth that purposely to

affirm the statement. Whereas, the calm characteristic who is accused of the false

accusation, Percy Jackson is likely to disagree and deny the accusation. Thus,

Percy prefers to speak directly by declairing and announcing about the truth to

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5.2 SUGGESTION

This research focuses on the types of assertive acts, the kinds of assertive

verbs and the differences between Percy Jackson ana Annabeth Chase in applying

assertive acts. Regarding to the result that Characteristic of the speaker can affect

to the way the speaker speaks about the truth. This research has shown that the

strong and wise characteristic tended to speak with evidence that purposely to

affirm the statement. Whereas, the calm cahracteristic tended to speak directly to

avoid any missunderstanding by declairing and announcing about the truth.

Knowing that this research has conducted in the adult conversation that is

sited on the movie script. The writer suggests the next researcher to do a deep

analysis in field of assertive acts which conducts an analysis in a new case of

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