AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN MOVIE THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS.
A THESIS
BY MAZNIL KHAIRI PURBA REG.NO.060705003
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2010
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to say all praises to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala who always give the chance, health, and everything for me so I can finish this thesis completely by through all the moment. I would like to express my best gratitude to my supervisor Drs. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S and my co-Supervisor, Drs. M. Syafii Siregar, M.A and my academic supervisor Drs. Matius C.A. Sembiring, MA for their time, advice, suggestion, comment, and support given to me during the process of writing and completing this thesis. I also would like to thank the Dean of Faculty of Letters USU, Dr. Drs. Syahron Lubis, M.A, the head of English Department, Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum and the secretary, Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum and all academics and administrative staff for their helps during the period of my study in the faculty. A very special gratitude goes to my beloved parents, Khairul Purba, S.Pd and Masnilam Sitompul for their love, support, and prays that will never ended in whole of my life, and also to my beloved sisters, Friza Sastri Purba and Nirmala Dewi Purba. I also would like to say thanks to my friends in 06 students, Ifa (my roommate and also friend in sharing everything), Juara (thanks for your help), Takim, Reza ‘ndut, Tesen, Arwin, Gulit, Fikar, Cimaw, Kinuy, Wita Kajol, Disti, Dewot, Ummi. Thank you for the time which we spent together and nice to have friends like you all. Thanks a lot to Kak Ayu’ 05 for the dialogue script, and also special thanks goes to Arridho Haidir Siregar for giving me support and always cares of me.
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I want to say sorry for my friends and family those are not mentioned, but I really want to say thank you for all who help me in completing this thesis.
Medan, …………….
Maznil Khairi Purba Reg. No. 060705003
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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION
I, Maznil Khairi Purba, declare that I am the sole author of this thesis except the references that I use in this thesis are go from some related texts and books. This thesis has not published yet or extracted in whole or in a part from another thesis. No other person’s work has been without due acknowledgement in the main text of thesis. This thesis has not been submitted for the aware of another degree in any tertiary education.
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COPYRIGHT DECLARATION
Name
: Maznil Khairi Purba
Title of Thesis
: An Analysis of Illocutionary Act in Film The Pursuit of Happyness
Qualification
: S-1/ Sarjana Sastra
Department
: English Literature
I am willing that my thesis should be available for reproduction at the discretion of the librarian of university of Sumatera Utara, Faculty of Letters, English Department on the understanding that users are made aware for their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia.
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ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini berjudul An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in The Pursuit of Happyness. Skripsi ini menganalisis tentang tindak ilokusi yang terjadi dalam tuturan yang diucapkan oleh pemeran utama dalam film The Pursuit of Happyness yaitu Chris Gardner. Skripsi ini terdiri dari 5 bab, yaitu: Bab I pendahuluan (Introduction) membahas tentang latar belakang, permasalahan (Problem of the analysis), tujuan penulisan (Objective of the analysis), manfaat penulisan (Significance of the analysis), batasan masalah (Scope of the analysis), tinjauan kepustakaan ( Riview of related literature). Bab II membahas tentang pengertian pragmatic, hubungan pragmatic dengan semantic beserta contoh dan pembagian Speech Act. Bab III membahas tentang ilokusi dan pengklasifikasiannya yang diikuti dengan contohcontoh. Bab IV menguraikan analisis dialog film The Pursuit of Happyness yang diujarkan oleh pemeran utama, Chris Gardner. Bab V berisikan kesimpulan dan saran hasil analisis. Tujuan penulisan skripsi ini adalah mengetahui cara mengekspresikan tindak ilokusi, mengklasifikasi kategori tindak ilokusi, menentukan tindak ilokusi langsung maupun tidak langsung serta mengklasifikasikannya berdasarkan struktur sintaksis. Dalam analisisnya, penulis menonton film The Pursuit of Hppyness secara berulang-ulang, kemudian mengumpulkan ujaran-ujaran pelaku utama, Chris Gardner, mengklasifikasikan ujaran tersebut berdasarkan cara menyampaikan tindak ilokusi, mengklasifikasikan ujaran tersebut berdasarkan cara menyampaikan tindak ilokusi baik secara langsung maupun tidak langsung, dan juga mengklasifikasikannya ke dalam empat grup. Skripsi ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif, Dalam mengumpulkan data, penulis menggunakan metode penelitian kepustakaan (library research).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………….i AUTHOR’S DECLARATION…………………………………………….iii COPYRIGHT DECLARATION…………………………………………..iv ABSTRAK…………………………………………………………………...v TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………..vi
1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………….1 1.1. Background of Analysis……………………………………………....1 1.2. Scopes of Analysis……………………………………………………3 1.3. Problems of Analysis………………………………………………....4 1.4. Objectives of Analysis………………………………………………..4 1.5. Significances of Analysis……………………………………………..5 1.6. Method of analysis…………………………………………………….5 1.7. Review of Related Literature………………………………………….6
2. THE OVERVIEW OF PRAGMATICS………………………………..8 2.1. The understanding of Pragmatics……………………………………..8 2.2. The Relationship between Pragmatics and Semantics……………….10 2.3. Speech Acts…………………………………………………………..12 2.3.1. Locution………………………………………………………12 2.3.2. Illocutionary Act……………………………………………...13 2.3.3. Perlocutionary Act……………………………………………13 3. ILLOCUTIONARY ACT………………………………………………15 3.1. The Categories of Illocutionary Act………………………………….17 3.1.1. Declaratives……………………………………………………17 3.1.2. Representatives………………………………………………..17 3.1.3. Commissives…………………………………………………...18 3.1.4. Directives………………………………………………………19 3.1.5. Expressive…………………………………………………….19 3.2. The Felicity Condition……………………………………………….20 3.3. The Ways of Performing illocutionary Act………………………….22 3.3.1. Direct Act……………………………………………………..22 7 Universitas Sumatera Utara
3.3.2. Indirect Act……………………………………………………23 3.3.3. Literal Act……………………………………………………..24 3.3.4. Non Literal Act………………………………………………..25
4. ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS…………………………………………..26 4.1. Syntactic Features of Directives……………………………………...26 4.2. Direct and Indirect Directives………………………………………...27 4.3. Linguistic Classification of Directives……………………………….31 4.3.1. GROUP A: Directives Expressed in Verbal Question…………………………………...31 4.3.2. GROUP B: Directives Expressed with Verb in The Stem Form……………………………………32 4.3.3. GROUP C: Directives Expressed in Pronominal question...............................................36 4.3.4. GROUP D: Directives Expressed in Statement………………..36 4.4. Table of The Analysis Result…………………………………………37
5. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION………………………………….39 5.1. Conclusion…………………………………………………………….39 5.2. Suggestion…………………………………………………………….40
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