SPEECH ACT IN “JOHN Q” MOVIE’S SCRIPT

This study deals with Speech Acts found in ohn Q movie s Script The objectives of this research were to find out the types of speech acts they are Declarations Representatives Expressives Directives and Commisives and the most dominantly type of speech acts used by the main character namely John Q and to describe the implication of the most dominant type of speech act used by the main character in John movie s script This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design The data were derived from John movies script by downloading the script from internet It took 360 utterances taken from the subtitle of John Q Movie The result of analyzing found five types of process were used in John Q movie they were Declarations Representatives Expressives Directives and Commisives There were 360 speech act in 360 utterances The findings of data analysis showed that the total numbers of process from the five types of speech acts were Declarations are 11 items 3 05 Representatives are 112 items 31 11 Expressives are 27 items 7 50 directives is 187 items 94 and Commisives is 23 6 40 utterances It means that Directives is the most dominant type of speech acts used in John Q movie Directives is generally used by the main character John Q in John Q movie s script because the main character intends to requesting commanding warning permitting urging questioning ordering suggesting advising begging challenging insisting and pleading when he face the problem and experienced the situation This is shows that the main character is attempts to get the other characters to do something or action