An Analysis of
Austin’s Theory and
Kinds of Speech Act
Used in 1917 Movie
SITI RUQIAH
1.
INTRODUCTION
Speech Act Theory originated with J. L. Austin. Austin started by
examining the view that a statement of fact ought to be verifiable in some
way. He believed that many philosophical problems had arisen because of a
desire to treat all utterances as verifiable statements.
—AUSTIN’S THEORY
Speech Act
Speech act is one of branch pragmatics. Yule (2016) states
that speech acts is action which is performed via
utterances. Speech act carries every single meaning of
words in communication and it brings different point of
view if it is used in unproper context.
AUSTIN DIVIDED SPEECH ACT AS THREE KINDS OF
LEVELS
ILLOCUTIONA PERLOCUTION
LOCUTIONARY
RY ARY
. The locution has a
When we say something The locution that effect
force, this is called an
with a sense and a on the hearer is called
reference, this called a Illocution
Perlocution
Locution
2. RESEARCH
QUESTION
What are Austin’s Theory and Kinds of Speech
Act used in the conversation between the
characters of 1917 Movies?
4. COLLECTING
3. METHOD
This research uses the descriptive qualitative DATA
The data were taken from the events, dialogues,
method. With of the whole events in the and scenes that are related to the Austin’s theory
movie as object of the study. and kind of speech act.
5. ANALYZING
Analyzing the dataDATA
with classifies these to the
Austin’s theory and kinds of speech act, then get
conclusion from analyzing data.
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
IN PRE-CLIMAX
EXAMPLE OF THE CONNOTATION
AUSTIN’S BASED ON AUSTIN’S
THEORY THEORY
Line 115: Schofield: Here- In line 122 Blake connotes Austin’s theory
Line 122: Blake: Tastes like old shoes about speech act. It known that the bread is
Line 127: Schofield: Cheer up. actually stale, practically cardboard. Blake’s
This time next week it’ll be chicken teeth struggle to get through it. Blake express
dinner his disliking of eat the bread with his
utterance.
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
IN CLIMAX
EXAMPLE OF THE CONNOTATION
KINDS OF BASED ON KINDS OF
SPEECHA CT SPEECH ACT
Line 3308: Schofield: We all need to Those sentences in line 3308-3318 are acts of
push! illocutionary, because after Schofield said those
Line 3311: Schofield: Come on! COME sentences, they accepted it and help Schofield to
ON! push car together. The intention of Schofield for
Line 3318: Schofield: Please. I have to go saying this sentence is to make them help him to
now. Please. push car so he can go quickly. Those sentences are
directive acts that have forces for requesting.
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
POST-CLIMAX
EXAMPLE OF THE CONNOTATION
KINDS OF BASED ON KINDS OF
SPEECHA CT SPEECH ACT
Line 5545: Schofield: No, sir. I’m from the Those sentences in line 5545, 5577 and 5586 are the
8th. acts of locutionary. Because they are declarative
Line 5577: Schofield: Schofield, sir. sentences and there are none perform action on the
Line 5583: Lieutenant Blake: I’m respond. This act also called constative, in the
sorry..what? context Schofield just was introduced himself to
Line 5586: Schofield: It’s Schofield, Sir. Lieutenant Blake.
William Schofield. Will.
7. CONCLUSION
Based on the results and discussion, it can be concluded
that Austin’s theory about speech act happened in 1917
movie and the kinds of speech act that found in this data
are 76 locutionary acts, 377 illocutionary acts, and 68
perlocutionary acts.
THE PERCENTAGES OF THE KINDS OF SPEECH ACT
USED IN 1917 MOVIE*
ILLOCUTIONAR
Y
1st most used
LOCUTIONARY
2nd most used
PERLOCUTION
ARY
3rd most used
8% 38% 7%
*from of the total 997 utterances in the movie
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