Prospective-Education, Langguage and Literature Journal
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): Pro-ELLitera Journal

AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT USED IN DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD MOVIE

Yunafiun Nayyiroh (UNIVERSITAS PGRI RONGGOLAWE TUBAN)
Dholiful Hadi (Universitas PGRI Ronggolawe Tuban)
Mansur (UNIVERSITAS PGRI RONGGOLAWE TUBAN)
Dyah Kurniawati (UNIVERSITAS PGRI RONGGOLAWE TUBAN)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2025

Abstract

This study aims to find out the pragmatics speech act classification 1) What are the types of illocutionary act 2) What is the most dominant types of illocutionary act performed by the main character in the movie titled Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Here, this research used a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data provide. From the data , the researcher discovered 76 utterances which is spoken by the main character that contain four out five speech act s by Searle’s theory (1969). In this study, the result shows as expressive holds the top among all speech acts types with the 28 data found (37%). The other speech act show Directive as the second position with 27 data (35%), the third is Representative with 16 data (21%), fourth is Commissive 5 (7%) data, and the last position is Declarative with 0 data (0%). Keywords: Pragmatics, Speech Act, Movie

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Journal Info

Abbrev

prora

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Humanities Computer Science & IT Education Library & Information Science Other

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This journal is focused on publishing the original research articles, review articles from contributors, and the current issues related to education, language and literature. The main objective is to provide a platform for the international scholars, academicians, and researchers to share the ...