Speech Acts Analysis of the Main Characters in Tinder Swindler Documentary Film
Speech acts which belongs to the field of pragmatics carrying a concept that when people say something, they perform an action. The study aims at investigating speech acts in a documentary film entittled the Tinder Swindler. There have been various research on speech acts in movies, but there is a l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Galuh
2023-02-01
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| Series: | JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) |
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| Online Access: | https://jurnal.unigal.ac.id/index.php/jall/article/view/9737 |
| Summary: | Speech acts which belongs to the field of pragmatics carrying a concept that when people say something, they perform an action. The study aims at investigating speech acts in a documentary film entittled the Tinder Swindler. There have been various research on speech acts in movies, but there is a lack of research on this topic which carries a documentary film as the center of attention. A qualitative research method is employed in the research using a document review as the data collection technique and descriptive and interpretative technique to analyze the data. The finding suggests that representative category dominates the utterances in the film taking 74% occurance. Hopefully, this study will fill the research gap and enrich the collection of studies on speech acts. |
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| ISSN: | 2598-8530 |