Exploring Directive Illocutionary Acts in “Avatar: the Way of Water” Movie
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v4i1.7515Abstract
This article is entitled An Analysis of Directive Illocutionary Acts in “Avatar: the Way of
Water” movie. The purpose of this study was to find out the directive speech acts that used in
“Avatar: the Way of Water” movie. The methods that used in this study were descriptive
qualitative and quantitative. Directive illocutionary acts presented in the movie were analyzed
and described based on theory by Searle (1979) on types of illocutionary acts and by Yule
(1996) on types of directive illocutionary acts. The subject of this study was the script of the
dialog among all the characters. The result of this study showed that the types of directive
illocutionary acts such as Command, Order, Request, and Suggestion. The total data that found
were 153 data which are: Command (88 utterances), Request (11 utterances), Order (44
utterances), and Suggestion (10 utterances). Command was the type that most often used in
this movie because it showed the strength of all characters and suggestion was the lowest.
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