A STUDY OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN

CHARACTERS IN THE ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE MOVIE

THESIS

BY:

HENDRIYANI

201010100311091

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

FEBRUARY 2015

A STUDY OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN

CHARACTERS IN THE ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE MOVIE

THESIS

BY:

HENDRIYANI

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

FEBRUARY 2015

A STUDY OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN

CHARACTERS IN THE ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE MOVIE

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve

Sarjana Degree in English Education Department

BY:

HENDRIYANI

201010100311091

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

FEBRUARY 2015

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

MOTTO:

“A person who follows a path for acquiring knowledge, Allah

will make easy the passage to Paradise for him.”

(Prophet Muhammad SAW)

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is

the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"

(Kofi Annan)

DEDICATION

I dedicate this thesis to:

My beloved father and mother,

My beloved brothers,

And all of my beloved best friends

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL .................................................................................................. i

LEGALIZATION ......................................................................................... ii

ORIGINALITY DECLARATION .............................................................. iii

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ..................................................................... iv

ABSTRACT ................................................................................................... v

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................ vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................. vii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Of Study ............................................................................. 1

1.2 Statement of the Problems ...................................................................... 4

1.3 Purpose of the Study ............................................................................... 5

1.4 Significant of the Study .......................................................................... 5

1.5 Scope and Limitation .............................................................................. 6

1.6 Definition of Key Terms ......................................................................... 6

CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1 Sociolinguistic ........................................................................................... 7

2.2 Pragmatic ................................................................................................... 7

2.3 Speech Acts ............................................................................................... 9

2.3.1 Kinds of Speech Acts ...................................................................... 8

2.3.1.1 Locutionary Acts ................................................................. 9

2.3.1.2 Illocutionary Acts ................................................................ 10

2.3.1.3 Perlocutionary Acts ............................................................. 11

2.3.2 Classification of Illocutionary Acts ................................................ 14

2.3.1.3 Claasification Illocutionary Acts by John L. Austin ........... 15

2.3.1.3 Classification Illocutionary Acts by John Searle ................ 17

2.3.3 Indirect Speech Acts ....................................................................... 19

2.3.4 Theory of Implicature and Cooperative .......................................... 21

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2.4 Movie ........................................................................................................ 24

2.4.1 Elements of Movie .......................................................................... 25

2.3.4 Types of Movie ............................................................................... 27

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Resign Design ........................................................................................... 32

3.2 Research Object ........................................................................................ 32

3.4 Data Collection .......................................................................................... 33

3.5 Data Analysis ............................................................................................ 34

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 Findings ..................................................................................................... 35

4.1.1 Indirect Speech Acts ....................................................................... 35

4.1.2 Classification of Indirect Speech Acts ............................................ 37

4.1.3 The Meanings of Indirect Speech Acts ........................................... 48

4.2 Discussion ................................................................................................. 62

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

5.1 Conclusions ............................................................................................... 64

5.2 Suggestion ................................................................................................. 65

References ...................................................................................................... 66

Appendix

Elizabeth the Golden Age Synopsis ................................................................ 68

Elizabeth the Golden Age Script ..................................................................... 70

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