AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT IN THE FOUR BROTHERS MOVIE

Abstract

The result of research indicates one hundred and twelve data of directive speech acts. The analysis shows four types of directive speech acts uttered in the movie. There are 52 data belong to command, 9 data belong to request, 42 data Four Brothers a belong to asking and 9 data belong to suggestion. The form of directive speech acts in the Four Brothers movie are imperative, interrogative, and declarative. Those are imperative 60 data, they are 50 data imperative used in the command, 4 in suggestion, and 6 in requests. Interrogative 3 data used in a request, 42 data used in asking. Then declarative 2 data is used in a command. Directive speech act in command was dominant and the characters often used imperatively to get the hearer to do some action.