Commissive Speech Act in the Movie John Wick Chapter 2

Commisive is a kind of speech acts that used by the speakers to commit themselves to some future course action. It expresses the speaker’s attention to do something on some future action. This study concerned on finding out the types of commissive speech act used by characters in the movie John Wick...

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Main Authors: I Wayan Juniartha, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, I Made Yogi Wijaya
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Language:English
Published: Universitas Udayana 2020-10-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/languange/article/view/62059/37378
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description Commisive is a kind of speech acts that used by the speakers to commit themselves to some future course action. It expresses the speaker’s attention to do something on some future action. This study concerned on finding out the types of commissive speech act used by characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, as well as analyzing the meaning of its utterances. This study applied the theory of pragmatics from Yule (1996) to find out the types of commissive speech act, theory of meaning from Thomas (1995) to analyse the implied meaning and supported by the theory of context of situation from Halliday and Hasan (1989). The data were collected by observation method and analysed by descriptive qualitative method. The finding is presented in formal and informal way. Our finding shows that there are four types of commisive speech acts which predominantly used by the characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, they are: refusal (12%), warning (48%), promise (12%) and threat (28%).
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spelling doaj.art-369e510f7db0451c9b1ebb50aeda4d1a2022-12-21T21:28:23ZengUniversitas UdayanaLingual2527-67192020-10-011023137https://doi.org/10.24843/LJLC.2020.v10.i02.p06Commissive Speech Act in the Movie John Wick Chapter 2I Wayan Juniartha0Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi1I Made Yogi Wijaya2Mahasaraswati Denpasar University, BaliMahasaraswati Denpasar University, BaliMahasaraswati Denpasar University, BaliCommisive is a kind of speech acts that used by the speakers to commit themselves to some future course action. It expresses the speaker’s attention to do something on some future action. This study concerned on finding out the types of commissive speech act used by characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, as well as analyzing the meaning of its utterances. This study applied the theory of pragmatics from Yule (1996) to find out the types of commissive speech act, theory of meaning from Thomas (1995) to analyse the implied meaning and supported by the theory of context of situation from Halliday and Hasan (1989). The data were collected by observation method and analysed by descriptive qualitative method. The finding is presented in formal and informal way. Our finding shows that there are four types of commisive speech acts which predominantly used by the characters in the movie John Wick Chapter 2, they are: refusal (12%), warning (48%), promise (12%) and threat (28%).https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/languange/article/view/62059/37378commissivespeech actutterancemeaning
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