“ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN KARATE KID’S MOVIE”

The study deals with the types of illocutionary act in Karate Kid’s Movie. The objectives of the study are to discover the dominant illocutionary act and to implicate for the use dominant illocutionary act in movie. The data were the transcript of Dre Parker’s utterances which were downloaded from internet. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The findings showed that there were 220 utterances which contained 4 types of illocutionary act. Dre Parker tended to use the representative (54, 55%), directive (34, 50%), expressive (8, 18%), and commissive (2, 72%). The most dominant type of illocutionary act was representative because he mainly uses the statement of arguing, asserting, informing and describing