Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023): JULY 2023

ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS PRODUCED BY THOR IN “AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR” MOVIE

Ulinuha Tri Mumtaza (Ganesha University of Education)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Jul 2023

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the speech act in Avengers Infinity War that was specifically used by one of the characters, Thor. The analysis focused on the illocutionary acts types of each speech act produced by the speaker, Thor. Using a descriptive qualitative method, the result of the study is in the form of a word description. The source of the data was the movie and the movie script. Using Searle’s theory (1969), the illocutionary act types were determined by considering four conditions of the felicity conditions of each utterance to classify the types. Furthermore, the result of the study found 6 representatives, 4 directive, 3 commissive, 1 declarative, and 1 expressive. In other words, the data was dominated by the representative speech acts.

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Journal Info

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LJLAL

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Lexeme: Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (e-ISSN: 2656-7067; p-ISSN: 2685-7995) is a scientific journal published twice a year in January and July managed by the English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Letter, Universitas Pamulang. Established in November 2018, the legal standing ...