THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS OF TRANSSFORMERS DARK OF THE MOON

The objectives of this research were to find out the five types of illocutionary acts, namely: Directive, Commisives, Expressive, Assertive, Declarative and the dominant one used in TransformersDark of the Moon. This research was conducted by using quantitative descriptive design. It took 752 utterances taken from the subtitle of Transformers Dark of the Moon which were released in June 29, 2011. The result of analyzing found five types of process were used in Transformers Dark of the Moon, they were: Directive, Commisive, Expressive, Assertive and Declarative. There were 752 illocutionary acts in 752 utterances. The findings of data analysis showed that the total numbers of process from the five types of illocutionary acts were: Directive is 361 (48, 02%) utterances. The total number of Commisive is 36 (4, 78%) utterances. The total number of Expressive is 58 (7,71%) utterances. The total number of Assertives is 296 (39,36%). And the total number of Declaratives is 1 (0,13%). It means that Directive is the most dominant type of Illocutionary Acts used in Transformers Dark of the Moon movie.