| dc.description.abstract | Basically, people produce an utterance as an action. It means that they can do
anything through utterances such as requesting, commanding, asserting, apologizing,
thanking, etc. To express the idea, people do not only produce utterances consisting
grammatical structure, but also do an action via their utterances. Speech acts is a term
of linguistics which analyzes language phenomena. Speech acts can be found in
utterances of movie. Therefore, the writer chooses movie script ”The Queen” as the
object of research. The language used by main characters reflects social phenomena
when they are angry, happy, sad, or annoyed. In addition, the language produced by
main characters is simple, yet it has great effect to the hearer’s respond.
This research aims to analyze speech acts on Peter Morgan’s movie script The
Queen directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starred by Helen
Mirren as the queen Elizabeth II and then Michael Sheen as the youngest Prime
Minister as main characters in this film. The story is about how to deal with the death
of Diana. The Royal Family while on their summer residence at balmoral castle see
her death as a private affair, not to be treated as an official Royal death. In contrast
with newly appointed Prime Minister (Tony Blair) and Diana
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s ex-husband (Prince
Charles) who attempt to reflect the public wish for an official expression of grief.
This research focuses on analyzing what kinds of speech acts on dialogues of
main characters that occur on Peter Morgan’s movie script The Queen dealing with
what are the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary act produced by main
characters on Peter Morgan’s movie script The Queen and what is the most dominant
illocutionary acts produced by main characters on Peter Morgan’s movie script The Queen. In analyzing the scenes, the researcher uses Austin and Searle theory of
speech acts.
The research employs a descriptive qualitative method. The research design
applied in this thesis is qualitative since the data of this research are utterances, and
the analysis and the result are not presented in numbers or statistic. The research is
descriptive research as it tries to describe the speech act phenomena. Then, the data of
the research are taken from selected dialogues among the scenes as main data on
Peter Morgan’s movie script The Queen. There are 25 scenes as main data in this
research. The data are devided into scene and the scene is explained into a speech act
analysis.
The result of the discussion reveals that many kinds of speech acts produced
by main character’s utterances namely Elizabeth and Prime Minister. The study finds
25 scenes (the utterance being uttered by the character), the illocutionary acts consist
of Directives appear 14 times; Assertives occur 8 times; Expressives gets 2 times;
Commissives appear 1 times, and Declarative is not found in this analysis, besides
there are 5 perlocution as the effect of the locutionary acts. Directives appear as the
dominant speech acts imply the utterances fit the reality. This can be an indication of
the characters expressing his feelings of getting the addressee to do something for
instance advising and commanding.
The discussions presented in this thesis highlight the analysis of speech acts
on Peter Morgan’s movie script The Queen. More specifically, the aim is to determine
the role of the speech acts in the comprehension of Peter Morgan’s movie script The
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