A Discourse Analysis on Character's Utterances in the Ice Age 4 Movie by Using Austin's Speech Act Theory

Abstract

In the study of language use, what the people do in saying something is called speech act. The purpose of this research was to reveal meaning of Manny’s utterances by using Austin’s speech act theory in the Ice Age 4 Movie. The research design was descriptive qualitative research. The source of the data of this research were chosen by using elicitation technique. The data were analysed by both using Austin's speech act theory to reveal the meaning and felicity conditions to know whether or not the utterance achieved its goal. The results showed that by using Austin's speech act theory could reveal the meaning of the characters' utterance. From those 11 utterances, they had certain meanings in certain context. There were seven utterances that categorized as felicity conditions and four utterances as the infelicity conditions. It indicated that when people say something, they do something.