COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON

This research aimed to find out the types of commissive acts found in the movie entitled Onward as the data source. The utterances uttered by the characters in the movie were taken as the data of the research and classified them by using the theory of commissive acts proposed by Searle. This researc...

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Main Authors: Desica Desica, Ambalegin Ambalegin
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Mulawarman 2021-12-01
Series:CaLLs: Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics
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Online Access:https://e-journals.unmul.ac.id/index.php/CALLS/article/view/6186
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description This research aimed to find out the types of commissive acts found in the movie entitled Onward as the data source. The utterances uttered by the characters in the movie were taken as the data of the research and classified them by using the theory of commissive acts proposed by Searle. This research is a descriptive qualitative research, as to describe the data in words and sentences. To collect the data, researchers conducted observational method and non-participatory technique. The researchers used the method of pragmatic identity to analyse the data and pragmatic competence – in equalizing technique to equalized the data based on the theory used. The research result showed that there were 17 utterances of commissive acts found in Onward movie. They were 2 data of promising, 4 data of threatening, 2 data of accepting, 6 data of refusing, and 2 data of offering. The act of refusal was the frequently used type of commissive acts since the character had the habit of not wanting to bother other people.
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spelling doaj.art-74a513b523a24fe29bdbe47bc571805f2023-11-22T10:43:06ZengFaculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas MulawarmanCaLLs: Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics2460-674X2549-77072021-12-017219720810.30872/calls.v7i2.61863519COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLONDesica Desica0Ambalegin Ambalegin1Putera Batam UniversityPutera Batam UniversityThis research aimed to find out the types of commissive acts found in the movie entitled Onward as the data source. The utterances uttered by the characters in the movie were taken as the data of the research and classified them by using the theory of commissive acts proposed by Searle. This research is a descriptive qualitative research, as to describe the data in words and sentences. To collect the data, researchers conducted observational method and non-participatory technique. The researchers used the method of pragmatic identity to analyse the data and pragmatic competence – in equalizing technique to equalized the data based on the theory used. The research result showed that there were 17 utterances of commissive acts found in Onward movie. They were 2 data of promising, 4 data of threatening, 2 data of accepting, 6 data of refusing, and 2 data of offering. The act of refusal was the frequently used type of commissive acts since the character had the habit of not wanting to bother other people.https://e-journals.unmul.ac.id/index.php/CALLS/article/view/6186commissive acts, pragmatics, speech acts
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Ambalegin Ambalegin
COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
CaLLs: Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics
commissive acts, pragmatics, speech acts
title COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
title_full COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
title_fullStr COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
title_full_unstemmed COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
title_short COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS FOUND IN "ONWARD" MOVIE BY DAN SCANLON
title_sort commissive speech acts found in onward movie by dan scanlon
topic commissive acts, pragmatics, speech acts
url https://e-journals.unmul.ac.id/index.php/CALLS/article/view/6186
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