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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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 |
spellingShingle | Desica Desica 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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