AN ANAYLYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze types of directive speech act found in movie script Beauty and
the Beast. Directive speech act itself is a speech act in which speaker attempts to persuade the
hearer or partner to perform an act or do something (or not do something). The researchers
focused on type of directive speech act found in the movie script.The researchers used theory
of Searle to classify the types of directive speech act which are commanding, requesting,
inviting, forbidding, and suggesting. The researcher then marked and took a note the
utterances data found in the script. After doing this inquires about, the researchers found all
the types of directive speech act that mentioned by Searle with 59 data. The types of directive
speech act dominated in the movie script is commanding with 30 data and followed by
requesting and forbidding with 11 data each. The next is suggesting with 6 data and the least
is inviting with 1 data. The researcher hopes can add insight in the field of linguistics.