Illocutionary Acts Used By Main Characters In Inkheart Movie

1. ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED BY MAIN CHARACTERS
IN INKHEART MOVIE
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
JULY 2012

4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks to God, all praises be to Allah SWT, the Lord of the universe who has
given me his beneficent so that I am able to finish this thesis.
Peace and Salam are always blessed and poured down upon our beloved
Muhammad SAW as the last prophet that has shown us the right ways, then we will
always in the shelter of Allah SWT, now, until hereafter life. Amien.
This thesis entitled “Illocutionary Acts Used by Main Characters in Inkheart
Movie” is intended to fulfill the requirement for achieving bachelor degree at
University of Muhammadiyah Malang. This thesis would not been completed without
some supports from many people. Thus, I would like to express my deepest gratitude
to my advisors Riza Elfana, M.A. and Rina Wahyu S, M.Ed. who have given me
finish my thesis successfully. Furthermore, I also would like to express my sincerely
gratitude to all the lecturers of English Department who have taught me to be a good
bachelor, my family and all of my friends who cannot be mentioned one by one.
Hopefully Allah SWT will give them in return all of the good things that have been
given to me. Amin.
Malang, August 31, 2012
The Writer,
Yuni Wahyuningsih

5. TABLE OF CONTENT
APROVAL........................................................................................................ i
LEGALIZATION ............................................................................................ ii
MOTTO & DEDICATION ............................................................................ iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT............................................................................... iv
TABLE OF CONTENT................................................................................... v
ABSTRACT...................................................................................................... vii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study ............................................................................ 1
1.2 Statement of Problem............................................................................ 4
1.3 Purpose of Study................................................................................... 4
1.4 Significant of Study .............................................................................. 5
1.5 Scope and Limitation ............................................................................ 5
1.6 Definition of the Key Term................................................................... 5
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LETERATUR
2.1 Pragmatics............................................................................................. 7
2.2 Speech Act ............................................................................................ 9
2.2.1 Locutionary Act ..........................................................................10
2.2.2 Illocutionary Act.........................................................................11
2.2.3 Perlocutionary Acts.....................................................................17
2.3 Movie ....................................................................................................18
2.4 Type of Movie.......................................................................................18
2.5 Inkheart Movie......................................................................................22
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design ....................................................................................24
3.2 Research Object .....................................................................................25
3.3 Research Instrument ..............................................................................25
3.3.1 Observation...................................................................................25
3.3.2 Document......................................................................................26
3.4 Data Collection ......................................................................................27
3.5 Data Analysis.........................................................................................27

6. CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Finding ..................................................................................28
4.1.1 Sentence Type Used by the Main Characters...............................28
4.1.1.1 Declarative Sentence...........................................................28
4.1.1.2 Interrogative Sentence.........................................................32
4.1.1.3 Imperative Sentence............................................................33
4.1.2 Kinds of Direct Illocutionary Acts ...............................................35
4.1.3 Kinds of Indirect Illocutionary Acts.............................................38
4.2 Discussion ............................................................................................39
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................41
5.2 Suggestion .............................................................................................41
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

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