Speech Acts Analysis of the Main Character in Frozen Movie: A Pragmatic Study

Abstract

This research applies pragmatic approach based on Searle’s theory, dealing with speech act as the main tool to analyze the data. In this research, the source of data is the movie script entitled Frozen. This research is aimed at analyzing the kinds of speech acts uttered by Elsa to other characters. The utterances are analyzed by using speech acts theory which is proposed by Searle (1979). This research employs a qualitative method. Regarding the method, this research uses qualitative research method as the main approach. The approach is combined with the documentary research strategy since the source of the data of this research is in a form of written text which is downloaded from (https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Frozen-(Disney).html). The data which are in a form of dialogues are analyzed with the speech acts tool to classify the types of each utterance. The results show that there are 32 utterances and 5 types of illocutionary acts within her dialogues. Those 5 types of illocutionary act are classified into representatives, directives, commissive, expressive and declaratives.