SPEECH ACTS BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN TWILLIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN MOVIE

Speech Act refers to action performed through utterances how to do thing with words. The study deals with the speech acts by the main characters in Twillight Saga Breaking Dawn Movie. The objectives of this study are to identify the types of speech act uttered by the main characters in the Breaking Dawn Movie. This thesis research used descriptive qualitative design. The data consist of the scripts of Breaking Dawn Movie part 2 which are analyzed in this study. The findings show that the three types of speech act uttered by the main characters they are locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. The context of speech acts really has important role to determined how to get the speaker intention. The speech acts are uttered in the context of common interactions in this movie.