JOEL: Journal of Educational and Language Research
Vol. 2 No. 4: November 2022

ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ON THE MINIMALISTS : LESS IS NOW

Widha Istika Winekas Hartono (English Education, University PGRI Semarang, Indonesia)
Dias Andris Susanto (English Education, University PGRI Semarang, Indonesia)
Faiza Hawa (English Education, University PGRI Semarang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2022

Abstract

This study aims to determine the types and describe the most dominant and least appearance of representative illocutionary acts in the documentary movie entitled "The minimalist less is now." This study used a qualitative descriptive method and applied the speech act theory by John R Searle (1979). The data were obtained through the listening method and note-taking technique. This study reveals that eight types of representative illocutionary acts are retelling, asserting, arguing, informing, explaining, reporting, reminding, and complaining. Its retelling appears as the most frequent type of representative illocutionary acts with a frequency of 47 data (25.13%) and its complaining is the least representative type of illocutionary acts with a frequency of 8 data (4.3%). This study can be a reference if someone wants to find out the contents of an utterance in this movie as a source of learning and an additional source in their literary work.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JOEL

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JOEL: Journal of Educational and Language Research published by Bajang Institute, was established in twelve times a year and with printed version of ISSN: 2807-937X and the online version of ISSN: 2807-8721. We invite critical and constructive inquiries into wide range of fields of study with ...