A PRAGMATIC STUDY ON INDIRECT DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN MOVIE MANUSCRIPT

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: (1) to find out the linguistic forms of indirect
directive utterances employed by the characters of the film entitled “The Fellowship of the Ring”
(2) to describe the context of situation in which each form of indirect directive utterances is
employed by the characters of the film. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The
research data were collecting by using observation. The data were analyzed by using an
interactive model. The results of this research are that (1) the indirect directive speech acts
uttered by the characters of the film are in the forms of single words, phrases, sentences and
sequence of sentences; (2) the functions implied which are expressed by the characters in the
film are: requesting, commanding, recommending, questioning, and prohibiting; (3) the classes
of directive speech acts expressed by the characters of the film are requestives, requirements,
questions, and prohibitives.

Keywords: pragmatic, indirect speech act, directive speech