An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts in "The First Grader" Movie

Febiola, Reza (2022) An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts in "The First Grader" Movie. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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FEBIOLA, REZA. 2022. An Analysis of Directive and Expressive Acts In "The First Grader" Movie. Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Institute of Islamic Studies Ponorogo. Advisor: Wiwin Widyawati, M. Hum.
Keywords: Speech Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Directive, Expressive, "The First Grader" Movie.

The directive act is one of the important things when communicating with other people. The directive contains an essential instruction from the speaker to the listener. The listener is expected to hear well what the speaker means to create good communication. Expressive act is used to express the feelings felt by the speaker to the listener. Listeners are also expected to reply to the utterances delivered by the speaker. Both directive and expressive acts are important because they are often used to communicate.

The aims of this research are 1) to identify types of the directive and expressive acts by all the characters in The First Grader movie. 2) to find out the types of the directive and expressive acts conveyed by all the characters in The First Grader movie.

The researcher used library research as a research design and descriptive qualitative research for the research approach. This research data are utterances produced by all the characters in The First Grader movie. The source of data in this research used script as primary data and the movie as secondary data. Information related to journals, books, and the internet is collected to complete the needed. The researcher used a documentary technique to conduct this research.

The result of this research showed that there are five directive act with the total number of 119 utterances contained by commanding (31,93%), requesting (7,56%), asking (42,01%), suggesting (9,25%), and advising (9,25%). Asking is the most dominant type of directive act used by all the characters in The First Grader movie. There are seven expressive act in this study with the total number 53 utterances contained by thanking (15,09%), apologizing (7,54%), congratulating (9,43%), welcoming (13,20%), greeting (15,09%), complimenting (20,77%), expressing joy (18,88%). Complimenting and Expressing Joy are the most dominant types of expressive act used by all the characters in The First Grader movie. The contribution of the directive and expressive acts in The First Grader movie can be the reference as a media for the teaching-learning process.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: Wiwin Widyawati
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 28 Jun 2022 03:54
Last Modified: 28 Jun 2022 03:54
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/20158

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