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THESIS
By :
LAVENIA DIANTY
SRN.13.32.1.1.051
2017
DEDICATION
6. Everybody who cares, prays, helps and always supports me to finishing the
thesis.
Indeed, with (hardship) will be easy, so you have finished (your duties), then stand up
(for worship). And to your Lord direct (your) longing.
-Imam Ali-
(The researcher)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
There is no beautiful word that the researcher express his gratitude to Allah
except Alhamdulillahirobbilalamin. All praises be to Allah SWT, the single power,
the Lord of the universe, master of the Day of Judgment, Allah all mighty, for all
blessings and mercies, so the reseacher was able to finish this thesis entitled “An
analysis of illocutionary acts performed by the main character in Divergent movie by
Neil Burger 2014”. Peace be upon Prophet Muhammad SAW, the great leader and
good inspiration of world revolution. Beside of that, the researcher realized that she
would not be able complete this thesis without the helps , supports, and suggestions
from several sides. Thus, the researcher would the express her deepest thanks to all of
those who had helped, supported and suggested her during the process of writing this
thesis. Then the researcher would like to give special thanks to:
1. Dr. Mudhofir Abdullah, M.Ag, as the Rector of the State Islamic Institute
of Surakarta
5. All lecturer of English Letters Department that could not be mention one
by one.
6. For her parents Mom Suryanti and Dad Supardianto, my brother Muhadi
Yusuf, and my sister Dian Oetari who always motivated, pray and
accompany the researcher to finish this thesis.
7. For her beloved family Mbak Satinem, Bude Katiyem, Ibu Marni, Bapak
Sunardi, Reni Fathkul Jannah, Mas Ali Tohar, Mbak Nirmala Sari.
8. For her beloved someone in heaven Ali Ufron, may Allah give you a
beautiful place.
9. B class of English Letters 2013 (Astray Family) thanks for the friendship.
10. Her roomates in boarding house Aulia Umul Fatih, Solikatun Mubarok,
Billa Arsita, Tarina Wahidiyati, Isna Umi Utami, Sheila Isnaini
Mahmudah, Widyati Istiqomah, Wheny Sulistyoningsih, Shintya
Marahtus Shollihah, Erika Rahayu and Putri Ayu Nurmalinda thanks for
all kindness may Allah always blessing us.
11. Her beloved owner of boarding house Ibu Joko, mbak Nana, and mas Aldi
thank you so much.
12. Her beloved friends Fauziah Anjani, Aprilia Nurjanah, Resita Maarif
Fadzilah, Ririn Rahayu, Rosiana Asmarani, Nia Damayanti and Handoko
Saputro, thanks for the loves.
13. All beloved friends from English Letters Department, thanks for
supporting and guiding the researcher.
The researcher realizes that this thesis is still far from being perfect. The
researcher hopes that this thesis is useful for the researcher in particular and the
readers in general.
The researcher
Lavenia Dianty
SRN.13.32.1.1.051
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE .............................................................................................................. i
ADVISOR SHEET.......................................................................................... ii
DEDICATION ................................................................................................ iv
MOTTO ........................................................................................................... v
PRONOUNCEMENT..................................................................................... vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT................................................................................. vii
ABSTRACT..................................................................................................... x
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
F. Definition of Key............................................................................ 9
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSSION
A. Conclussion ..................................................................................... 69
B. Suggestion ....................................................................................... 70
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................... 71
APPENDICESS ............................................................................................... 72
ABSTRACT
The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method to describe and analyze the
selected of illocutionary acts which are watching movie and then classifies them
according to John R. Searle‟s concept types of illocutionary acts. Technique of
collecting data are (1) watching the movie for several times in order to understand
the whole story (2) collecting the data, transcibing the data from the dialogue in the
movie into form of list, identify the listed dialogue that contain types of illocutionary
acts carried out by the participant (3) finding out the types of illocutionary acts
carried out by the participant representative, directive, commisive, expressive, and
declarative. The researcher uses content analysis which focus on analyzing types of
illocutionary acts and the dominantly of types of illocutionary acts in Divergent
movie carred out by the main character.
The result of the analysis, the researcher found the answer of the researcher
problems. The researcher finds that Beatrice (Tris) the main character use all types of
illocutionary acts. First representatives there areAsserting (10), denying
(1),notifying(7), Stating (10), predicting (2). Directives Ordering (2), Forbiding (2)
Commanding (9), Requesting (3). Commisives Vowing (1), expressives
Condoling(1), Deploring(2), Apologizing(1), Thanking (1), Declaratives Naming (2),
Declare (1). This research, reveals that Beatrice in his utterances use illocutionary
acts of representatives.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
The part of linguistics studies the word „pragmatics‟ was derived from the
communication between the speaker and the listener. It is understood that the
which was derived not from the formal properties of words and constructions, but
from the way in which utterances were used and how they are related to the
context in which they were uttered. According to Leech (1983: 57), the scope of
in the message, the knowledge of the world which they share, the deductions to
be made from the text on the basis of the context, and the impact of the non-
principles. The study of speech acts (which is the core of pragmatics) has grown
appreciably, but from a theoretical perspective in particular. Grice has contended
generated from the conventional meanings of words. It has been noted that in
billboard adverts, conventional issues are of both immediate and remote relevance
to the audience.
(or reader). In pragmatics, we study about the meaning of the context between
the speaker and the listener. From the explanation above, it means pragmatics is
With pragmatics, people can talk people‟s intended meanings, their assumption,
their purposes or goals, and the kinds of action that they are performing when
This approach also necessarily involves how listener can make inferences
meaning. Those kinds of actions performed through utterance above are known
as speech act. As Austin (1962:94) states that speech acts is a theory in which to
say something is to do something. Speech act theory explain how speakers use
language to accomplish intended actions and how hearers infer intended meaning
form what is said. Speech act is the people expression of something by utterance.
To achieve their goals, speakers are not only saying something but also
actionis called a speech act. A speech act is an action through which people do
something by using their language. Every utterance spoken by people in real life
According to Austin in Yule (1996: 48), there are three types of speech
act. The first is locutionary act (an act of saying something) which merely
delivers the literal meaning of utterances. Or, it can be said that locutionary act is
act (an act in saying something) which sets a function to perform the intended
may have on the hearer) which is the effect of illocutionary act. Illocutionary acts
is the function of the word, the spesific purpose that the speakers have in mind.
The most important study from three kinds of speech act is illocutionary acts, it
of the utterance. It means that perlocutionary act is the effect of the utterance
which is said by the speaker to the listener. From those three acts, as Yule (1996:
49) states that illocutionary is the most often discussed acts in pragmatics. The
most important study from three kinds of speech act is illocutionary acts. It
act has some different types. Searle (1975) in Levinson (1983:240) proposed that
there are five classification of illocutionary act; they are representative, directive,
meaning. First representative, that the speaker believes something being the case
or not. Second is directive when the speaker requesting to the listener, listener
future. The fourth is expressive, it shows an expression how the speaker feels
about the situation. The last is declarative, it changes world by the utterance
which is produced.
media since as audio and visual, they work together to make the audience
a science fiction action film from US which is directed by Neil Burger based on
the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth. Divergent is a faction action film
which was released in march 2014. The main character of this film is Beatrice
Prior (Tris) a woman of young adult. Tris is a daughter of Andrew Prior. She was
born into Abnegation who lead a simple life, selfless, dedicated to helping others.
factions. Abnegation the selfless, Dauntless the brave, Erudite the intelligent,
Candor the honest, and Amity the peaceful. When all teenagers reach the age of
16, they must choose to either stay in their faction of birth, or transfer into
another faction. Beatrice Prior must make the decision to stay with her family in
a faction, she felt she is not right for, or to transfer into another faction, and left
her family behind. Tris must make some tough decisions, but she must also kept
a secret that she were warned could mean death, while she juggled friends,
initiation, and a new found love interest. But there is a secret lying beneath
everything that threatened to tear the city apart. Beatrice a woman abnegation who
has to take the aptitude test to determine here future faction. She go to the station
where other 16-year-olds from the other factions are taking their aptitude tests.
Tori, as her test administrator, said that the results were inconclusive. According
to the results, Beatrice is suited for Abnegation, but also Erudite and Dauntless.
This is a rare case, known as Divergent, being suited for more than one faction.
She had the aptitude to fit into multiple faction ( Candor, Erudite, Amity,
Abnigation, and Dauntless). However, Tris must chose one of the fifth factions,
because everyone there only have one faction in their life. This movie contains
01:07:57,573-->01:08:00,876
Tris utterance “Mom, you can't be here” the meaning as forbid someone
to do something. Tris forbiding her mom to can not be here in that place, depends
on the context. The utterance above can be included into one of type of
illocutionary acts, delcarative act, who the speaker to get someone else to do
and discussions. The example shows that an utterance has one meaning or
purpose. Hence, from this movie the researcher can learn how to understand and
utterance. From those reasons, the researcher was interested in identifying the
movie by using speech act theory especially illocutionary acts. She intended to
conduct a research entitled An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts Performed by the
B. Problem Statement
1. What are the types of illocutionary acts in the Divergent movie who
2. Which are the types of illocutionary acts most dominantly used in the
In accordance with the problem of the study above, the objectives of the
study are :
Divergent movie.
focused on analyzing speech acts in Divergent film who produced by the main
illocutionary acts and the five types of illocutionary acts according to Searle
from the dialogue from the main charascter. The researcher choose Divergent
movie as the object because this movie tells about a woman‟s adventure who
The benefit of the study will be distinguished into two theoretically and
can be enjoyed with the meaning and purpose of Divergent movie. Especially, it
is by knowing about the speech acts classification used in Divergent movie. The
research hopefully brings benefit that will be useful for English learners as well
1. Theoretically
2. Practically
a. The research can give additional input in improving the ability to
movie.
The key terms are used to help the researcher analyses the work and
1. Speech Act
Yule (1996:47) said that speech acts is actions performed via utterances.
Searle says that the unit of linguistics communication is not, as has generally
been supposed, the symbol, word or sentence, or even the token of the symbol,
2. Illocutionary Act
3. Divergent
A fiction action film from US which is directed by Neil Burger based on
the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth which was released in march 2014.
THEORITICAL REVIEW
A. Review on Pragmatics
literatures that are related to this study. The first part is the theoretrical review.
Some theories that are used in this study are theory about pragmatics, scope
of pragmatics, speech acts, types of illocutionary acts , and context. This research
uses pragmatic theory as data analysis approach. Related literature which was
contained the main theory of the study, and related study which it is about the
author‟s research as the supporting theory and some reference books and reliable
sources that support the theories applied in this research. The next part is
previous research study. It present the similar research that had been conducted.
The last part is the theoretical framework. It explains a theoretical basis for the
1. Definition of Pragmatics
the late 1970s, it study about how people understand and produce
definition shows that it is very important to that the real meaning is by listener
to perform communication with the speaker. In addition, he defines
the situation context and closely related to the atmosphere of hearer, speaker
also necessary to explore how listeners can make inferences about what is said
perspective can raise the question of what determines the choice between
uttered and unuttered. The basic answer is tied of the notion of distance,
He also added that pragmatics is the study about the ability to use language
and to make the sentence which has relationship with the context. It can be
said that pragmatics studies about language and its context. Pragmatics studies
the language user. Pragmatics also explores how listeners and readers make
relationship between language and context that are relevant to the writing of
linguistic structure.
“pragmatics as the science of language viewed from the relation to its user”.
It provides people greater understanding of how the human mind works, how
unconventional ways, as long as people know what they are doing to deliver
their purposes.
of what people meant in particular and how the context influence what is said.
pragmatics.
When the people communicate with others, they do not only consider how to
use the language, but also consider the context in which the language is used.
that “pragmatics is the study of relationship between linguistic forms and the
users of those forms”. Yule (1996: 3) also states four areas that pragmatics is
a. Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning. What people said usually tied
with the context of conversation. This type of study necessari involves the
organize what they want to say in accordance with who, when, where, and
b. Pragmatics is the study of how more meaning are communicated than what is
said. It explores how listeners can make inferences about what is said in order
answers the perspective of what determines the choice between the said and
the unsaid in which the said and the unsaid are tied to the notion of distance.
On the assumption of how close or distant the listener is, speakers determine
prespective then rasises the question of hat determines choice between the
said and unsaid. The basic answer is tied to the notion of distance. Closeness,
assumption of how close or distant the listener is, speakers determine how
features which study context, text and function. Pragmatics focuses on what is
contexts. They are concerned not so much with the sense of what is said as
with its force, that is, with what is communicated by the manner and style of
an utterance.
utterance said by a speaker. It gives the advantages that one can talk about
2. Scope of pragmatics
(1996) as follows: (a) deixis, (b) presupposition, (c) cooperative principle, (d)
implicature (e) speech acts and (f) politeness. Since this researcher belongs to
a. Deixis
According to him, “deixis is a technical term (form Greek) for one of the most
basic things we do with utterence”. When you notice a strange object and ask
“what‟s that?” you are using a deictic expression (that) to indicate something
indexicals. He divides deixis into three kinds. There is a person deixis the
1) Person Deixis
2) Spatial Deixis
3) Temporal Deixis
Yule (1996) states that “it is something the speaker assumes to be the
follows from what is asserted in the utterence. Sentences, not speakers, have
entailments. If we says “My wife is pregnant” means that the speaker has a
wife.
presupposition has been associated with the use of a large number of words,
c. Cooperative principle
That something must be more than just what the words means. It is an
1) Maxim of quantity
2) Maxim of quality
3) Maxim of relation
4) Maxim of manner
d. Implicature
In a conversation, there are a lot of messages who are delivered by the
speaker. When the listener hears the expression of speaker, they have to
something. That something must be more than just what the words mean, it is
the conversation to get the meaning of the implied message. The implied
words and result in additional conveyed meaning when those words are used”.
or mean as distinct from what they literary say”. In other words, implicature is
an implied message that is based on the intepretation of the language use and
its context. There are two types of implicature of Grice‟s, namely convertional
which speakers meaning can differ from what is said, depends on context of
Speech acts are one of the five main topics in the study of pragmatics.
Austin in his book How to Do Things with Words (1962). Austin defines
utterances, ones are able to get others to do something. In other words, speech
acts are actions which are performed via utterances (Yule, 1996: 48 ).
only says something. One can tell whether a statement, if viewed as an act is
To develop the idea, every speech event constitutes a speech act. Speec
listener. Austin (1962:94) states that “speech acts is a theory in which to say
containing grammatical structure and words, they perform actions via those
utterances. Speech acts are commonly taken to include such acts as promising,
sentence or even the token of the symbol, word or sentence, but rather the
structures and words, they perform action from via those utterance.
Thus, the interaction can run smoothly because the message is delivered to the
listener.
Actions performed via utterances are generally called speech acts and
the ways in which what people say to each other has force as well as content”.
language with its force to get the message inside the utterances. However,
language is the principal means that people have to greet, compliment and
insult one another, to plead or flirt, to seek and supply information, and to
perlocutionary act.
a) Locutionary act
is the act of saying something that is the form of the words uttered, or
g an utterance.
the illocutionary act is the act of ordering. Yule (1996: 48) states that
Cutting (2008: 14) states that it is what the speakers are doing with their
words.
the speaker has said. Perlocutionary acts would include effects such
as: get the listener to think about, bring the listener to learn that, g
h act is a daily occurrence. Yule (1996: 48) states that the third
1) Representives/Assertives
Assertives are acts which commit the speaker to something‟s being the
case to the truth of the expressed proposition. Leech (1983: 105) proposes the
belief that some proposition is true. The words used by the speaker state what
“It was a warm sunny day”, the speaker describes his/her opinion that the day
is warm and sunny as his/her belief although maybe it is a hot sunny day. In
using a representative, the speaker makes words fit the world. All of the
examples above illustrate the speaker who represents the world as he/she
state express what the speaker believes to be the case or not (Searle in Yule,
1996:53). It shows the truth condition of the meaning of the utterance. Searle
The utterance is a fact that the earth is a flat. This is absolute fact who is
trusted by everyone.
2) Directives
listener to carry out some action. This act represents what the speaker wants.
said that is to make a cup of coffee and to make it black. This speech act
3) Commissives
Commissives are acts which commit the speaker to some future course
be express what the speaker intends. Including in this type is offer, promise,
Speaker in example [a] commits to the future action that he/she will come
back again. Speaker in example [b] promises that he/she will not do the same
thing again in the future. Both speakers are committing some future course of
action which means they apply commissive. The speaker undertakes to make
the world fit the words (via the speaker) by using commissive.
4) Expressives
speak. By doing so, the speakers have performed the expressive acts.
Expressives are speech acts which express a psychological state. They have
speech acts express the speaker‟s inner state which says nothing about the
[b] “Congratulations!”.
Both of the speakers in the example [a] and [b] show their psychological
speaker makes words fit the world (of feeling) by uttering an expressive.
5) Declaratives
declarative is kinds of speech act that change the world via their utterance.
When the speaker utters a declaration, his or her words bring about a new
state of affair. It can be changing of the status of a person or, the ownership of
something. The verbs which belong to declaration are : appointing, baptizing,
declare, naming, and resigning. The examples are the priest said :
people the priest changes the life of two persons of a single being to be
is used by the researcher to analyze the kinds of speech acts employed by the
4. Politeness
concern for people‟s „face‟ ( Brown and Levinson in Woro Retnaningsih 2013
: 262).
their public selfi mage or face wants to behave so that their expectations will
be respected. To save another face, people use two kinds of face wants. The
member of the same group, and to know that his or her wants are shared by
C. Context
Nunan (1993), context is situation giving rise to the discourse and within
discourse being analyzed, meanwhile non linguistic context are related to the
utterance produced. The same utterance will have different meaning if the
can refers to a teacher command them to cut their hair in order to obey the
woman to her friend, it can be meants that she praising of her friend‟s hair.
From the example above, it can be concluded that the inteded meaning only
based on the speaker and the hearer is not enough. But, we also to know the
and speaker‟s, purpose of speech, etc. As the following, Gumpers and Hymez
aspect of speech. Those are setting and scene, participants, end act sequence,
follow Setting and sense (S), which refers to the time and place of speech.
Participants (P), which include in the conversatiton, speakers and listener, End
speech. Act (A), is sequence, which refers to the actual form and content of
what it said. Key (K), which refers to the tone, manner or spirit in which
the channel and to the actual form of speech employed. Norms (N) of
that attach to speaking and also to how these may be viewes by someone who
does not share them. Genre (G), the final term that refers to clearly
D. Movie
Movie or film is one of art forms. Movie has visual elements which
boght right.
The research about the use of illocutionary acts in the novel entitled New
Moon. The aim of the research is to do identify and analysize the use of
speech acts classification. The data included utterances from the character‟s
conversation. In conducting the research, the writer read the novel carefully
and made notes pages contain data and then the writer classified the data into
used illocutionary acts In this research, the writer finds that Sherlock Holmes uses
research reveals that Sherlock Holmes in his utterances uses illocutionary acts of
objectives of her researcher to find speech acts in the Body of Lies movie
script. The problems of this research are types of speech acts and Searle‟s
writer‟s research, but the data object is different. She analyzed about the
movie script and the writer analyzing the main character‟s utterance.
the main character of Finding Nemo movie. In analyzing the data, he used
speech acts theory of John Searle who classified the utterance into four parts
of illocutionary acts. Solihin‟s research, has similarties object and theory with
the writer research. The same found and identify the data into five parts of
illocutionary, but in his reseach only four parts are classified by the
researcher.
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter elaborates the steps involved in the study. It consists of the
chapter is divided into five sessions: the research design, object of study, data
in the following discussion. The type of study discusses the approach in this
research. Meanwhile, object of study, data sources, discuss how the data are
collected and anlysis using research procedures. The last section in this chapter is
data trustworthiness, this chapter discusses how the validity of the data research is
achieved.
A. Research Design
inductive data analysis. To analyze the types of illocutionary acts that are
research method since it was intended to find out the kinds of illocutionary
used to describe or analyze the data in research. Hence, the researcher used
format data. The researcher explain the data taken from script of movie.
understood if they are separated from the text. There are some considerations
in using qualitative research in this research, the first one is that qualitative
different forms. According to Arikunto (2006:107) the data may appear in the
dialogue. The study focused on the illocutionary acts used by the main
and directed by Neil Burger it was released 2014 and distributed by Summit
Entertaiment. Types of illocutionary acts in this study focuses only on Tris‟s
utterance.
C. Research Instrument
the researcher is the key instrument. In addition to this, several teps to collect
the data were watching movie and reading the script. It can be stated that this
data source is the object that can provide the data as material for the
is the words and the remaining actions, there are additions like other
documents.
The data of this study were Beatrice the main character‟s utterances
related to the illocutionary acts. While the data sources of this research was
Divergent movie script. The script was taken from the web. The duration of
This method is used to identify linguistic units according to the effects which
are uttered by the speakers. The method used for thii research is
is find the data that related by using book, trancripts, newspapers, magazines,
This form of analysis is just one of the many steps that must be
were gathered, reviewed, and then analyzed to form some sort of findings or
explained as follows:
2) After the researcher watching the movie, the researcher reading the script.
3) Watching the movie while reading the script and take some notes to
Declarations)
Datum no/T/toia/subtype
46/01:27:01-01:27:03/Cmsv/vwg
Tris : “If you ever come close to me again, I will kill you!”
The alphabietic capital letter are used minute and types of illocutionary
Tm : Time
Rep : Representatives
Dirc : Directives
Cmsv : Commisives
Expr : Expreesives
Dcl : Declaratives
No : Number of Data
what he/she has discovered to others. The steps of data analysis in this
3. The data were analyzed, grouped into their own types and
F. Data Trustworthiness
the data depend on the subject and condition of inquiry rather than on the
findings to other social settings, populations, and contexts. In this study, the
The purpose of triangulation is not to seek the truth about some phenomena,
but rather to increases the researcher‟s understanding of what has been found.
discussed the data with one lecturers of English Letters Study of The State
correct of the data. The investigators‟ roles were checking and validating the
data. To meet the dependability, the researcher gave detail explanation of the
In this chapter, the researcher would like to present the research findings and
discussions. Firstly, the researcher explains the types of illocutionary acts from Tris‟s
the utterance into five types of illocutionary acts.Thirdly, the researcher observed the
A. RESEARCH FINDINGS
According to the data validation, the researcher has found 54 data in the Tris‟s
acts can be categorized into several types. They include locutionary acts,
illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts. Locutionary acts is the acts of saying
something that is the form of the words uttered, or “what is said”. Meanwhile, the
are kinds of other things also, such as Representative (Asserting, stating, denying,
act is the effect of an utterance. The researcher took the data from dialogue of Tris
as main character in Divergent movie. Below, there are table types of classification
1. Representative Asserting 10 30
Denying 1
Notifying 7
Stating 10
Predicting 2
2. Directive Ordering 3 16
Forbiding 2
Commanding 9
Requesting 2
3. Commissive Vowing 1 1
4. Expressive Condoling 1 5
Deploring 2
Apologizing 1
Thanking 1
5. Declarative Naming 2 3
Declare 1
Total 55 55
Based on the table above, representativesacts are the most commonly used by
speakers in the movie, that occurs is 30 data. This means that almost speaker give
information about the case. The second shows directives acts that occurs is 15 data,
utterances. Third is commisives acts that occurs is only1 data This act happens
acts that occurs are 5 data, this acts happens when the speakerexpressing her
expression. Then the last is declaratives acts that occurs are 3 data, this acts happens
B. DISCUSSIONS
In the research, the researcher analyzingthe data and classified the data
this research, the first is to analyze types of illocutionary acts are performed by
the main character and to find out the dominantly acts resulted as follows :
1) Representative
condition of the meaning of the utterance. There are acts which commit the
speaker to something‟s being the case to the truth of the expressed proposition.
According to Searle (1996) the examples of this type are stating, asserting,
asserting, second is denying, third is notifying, then stating, and the last is
Tori : “No, society.If you don't fit into a category,they can't control you”.
Context
a. Addreseer & addresee : Beatrice and Tori
b. Setting : Dauntless area, (Tattos)
c. Context of situation : The condition was quite. In that night,all of
members were asked to chose a tattoo. Beatrice met Tori, she has been
a supervisor Tris‟s exam.
Discussion of the data
supervisors exam named Tori. The speech event takes place at the
dauntless room. When Four and Eric sneer at Beatrice and doubt her
ability to keep up. To cheer her up, Christina, Will, and Al took her to a
parlor to get tattoos. There, Tris found Tori and follows her, even
though it looks like she's trying to avoid her. She warned Tris that she
shouldn't have chosen Dauntless as her new faction, because there are
people looking for divergents. Beatrice still curious about her result‟s
test yesterday, she want to asked Tori aboit it. But, Tori blamed Beatrice
because she had choosen Dauntless to her faction, but shewere sure with
her choice. She did not care about people who hate her. Then, Tori said
“For your sake, I hope so”. She hoped it will come true. From the
utterance, Beatrice said that she were sure with her judgment to chose
Representative. She asserted to Tori about what her choice. Itis clear
b. Denying
Context
event takes place at the exam room. She puts Tris in a chair and has her
drunk a blue serum to start the test. Beatrice closed her eyes and then
opened them to find herself alone, with Tori no longer standing by her
side. She gets up and sees her reflection. She kept turning her head and
at Beatrice and then ran toward her. She closed her eyes and then saw it
as a puppy. Her younger self appeared, want to play with the puppy. It
reverts to its mangy dog form, running to attack the little Beatrice. The
older one runs after the dog, and they sink through the floor. Beatrice
awaked with a jolt. Tori is in a panicked state. Beatrice asked her what
the results were. Tori said they were inconclusived. According to the
more than one faction. Tori told her to go home and said she were sick
c. Notifying
Context
a. Addreseer & addresee : Tris and Four
c. Context of situation : The condition was very quiet, when Tris knew
that Al was dead, he was very upset.
From the dialogue is between Beatrice and Four, when Tris and
Christina came across the chasm where some Dauntless members are
pulling out a body. It is Al, having jumped to his death out of guilt. Tris
felt somewhat responsible for this. Tris admited to Four she did not sure
she would pass her final testing either. When Four asked why, Tris said
that Four knew she is Divergent. Four acknowledges that he knew, and
said he is going to help her. After Tris saw Al were died of suicide. Four
tries to calm Tris that it's not Tris's fault, but it's Al's choice to worry too
much about his faction. Here Tris told Four that he would also do the
same if he had failed with his faction. Because Tris had 5 factions at once
which if they (the Dauntlesss) knew this Tris will be killed by the
Dauntless. Then, Four said "I'm not gonna let that happen". She assured
listener.
d. Stating
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Tris: “I'm never gonna make it. I'm the weakest one here.”
Context
From the dialogue, Tris told her friend (Christina) that herself
was weak. She considered that she was the weakest among other friends.
Then, Cristina said “Then you'll be most improved”. She tried to calm her,
Tris didnot felt weak. From the utterance, Tris stated that she felt so
Representative. Tris stated that she could not do like another person
d. Predicting
Will : “Even if they wanted to, their faction wouldn't allow it”.
there anymore”
Context
From the dialogue, Tris and his friends were talking about life
factions. The worst thing that would happen to the faction here is that if
they did not have the right factions in their lives, they would be
Tris had guessed that both her parents would still received her if she
2) Directives
the listener to carry out some action. This acts represents what the speaker
suggesting, insisting, and recommending. The data below are the types of
directive acts:
a. Ordering
Context
threw his knife weakly and it did not hit anywhere close to the target. Eric
Eric stopped everybody and forces Al to stand in front of the target. Before
Eric threw his knife, Tris told him that this wont prove anything. Eric makes
her take Al's place. Four grabed four knives to threw. He threw the first one
far away from Tris, but gets closer with each knife until he threw the last one
close enough to cut Tris's ear. After the practice, she told Four that he cut her,
but he said Eric would not had let her out of there if she were left without a
b. Forbiding
Context
a. Adresseer & adressee : Tris and her Mom
b. Setting : Dauntless parking
c. Context of situation : The conditions were happy, all the quarantine
members were allowed to go home. When it was time Tris put things
in the car, his mother came.
From the dialogue, when Tris and all the members of Dauntless
bags in the truck, they are taking in bags of supplies from Amity and loading
them onto trucks. Tris saw a light flashing in her eyes as if somebody is
trying to get her attention. She walked behind the trucks and found her
mother had signaled. They hug. Natalie asked Tris if she really got Dauntless
for her aptitude test. She admited her results were inconclusive. Natalie
warns her not to let anybody knew about this and to be safe, because Erudite
is hunting down Divergents, believing they are a threat to their system since
they did not conform to just one faction and are capable of free-thinking.
Tris then asked Natalie if she were Dauntless. Her mom told that Tris in
danger of her faction. However, Tris more worried about her mother if she
stays here. This utterance, it is clear that Tris forbade her to be in this place.
In the directive act, the speaker expects the listener to do something with
what the listener said. Tris wished her mother would soon leave the venue.
d. Commanding
Context
From the dialogue, Tris and her mother tried to saved themselves
from the Erudite faction and Dauntless faction itself. She rescues her
daughter, and Tris realizes that her mother were indeed a former Dauntless.
They took their weapons to defend themselves. Will shoots at Tris and
Natalie, and Tris had to kill him. Tris tried to stop Will but he ignored her.
Tris had to fire the bullet to Will until he died.She is upset that she had to
do it, but her mother comforts her. Tris's comment contained commanded
meaning but the listener ignored the command from the speaker.
Context
From the dialogue, the situation was so gripping. Tris heled her
mother and cried. She went to found her father and Caleb in a safe house. She
cried to her father, morning Natalie's death. Caleb mourns as well, having left
Erudite after realizing their corruption. Tris told them that the serum Erudite
gave the Dauntless members is controlling them into attacking the Abnegation
fortress. Tris led them away.Tris guided Andrew and Caleb, and another
fighter, to the train that took them to Dauntless. They jumped off the train into
the rooftop and down into the hole. Tris found Al and forces him to told them
where the fortress is after shooting him.They must found where Erudite
controls the system. When they enter into Dauntless, and they met with Al, he
awoke again. Tris ordered Al to lean “against the wall and asked to told where
into a commanding word which means the listener does what the speaker‟s
said.
e. Requesting
Context
From the dialogue, Tris guided Andrew and Caleb, and another fighter, to
the train that took them to Dauntless. They jumped from the train to the roof and
down into the pit. Tris foundAl and forced him to tell them where the castle is
after shooting him. The heroes met the more controlled members of Dauntless.
Andrew shot them and killed them, but he was shot and also died quickly. Caleb
cried because of his father, and Tris was mourning as well. He kept moving until
he found a room with Jeanine and the others, ready to complete Dauntless's
control. All are ready to kill many Abnegate members. Some of the Dauntless
have started killing some Abnegate members.In this dialogue it is clear that Tris
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Context
faction. In here, Tris asked Four to be aware that it is him. Because she
had been beat Tris. Tris saw that Four had also been injected with the
serum, controlling him to attack Tris. She were fought back, but Four
outfights her easily. Tris repeatedly tried to remind him who she is. She
grabed a gun and points it at him, but then she turned it around to her own
head. She continues to reassure Four, "It's okay, I love you." As Four took
heled of the handle of the gun, ready to kill Tris, she gently kept his face
(requesting) where Tris asked Four to saw her at that moment to get him
out of control.
3) Commisive
Commissives are those kinds of speech acts that the speaker uses to
commit themselves to some future actions. They express what the speakers
intend. In using the commisive, the speaker undertakes to make the world fit the
The examples are [a] “I will beback”and [b] “We will not do that”.
TheSpeaker in example [a] commits to the futureaction that he/she will come
back again. The Speaker in example [b] promises thathe/she will not do the same
thing again in the future. Both speakers are committing some future course of
speech act that the speaker uses to commite themselves to do some in the future,
(Searle in Yule1996:54). Commisive can express what the speaker intends. The
a. Vowing
Tris : “If you ever come close to me again, I will kill you!”.
Context
by three masked guys. They carried her and nearly threw her into the chasm,
but she fought herself out. She unmasks one of them, shocked to see it is Al.
She fought them off and Four came in to her rescue. He tendedto her wounds,
and she expressed disbelief that Al would attack her. Four said it is because he
is trying to boost his ranks since he knew he is close to getting kicked out.
Later, when everybody is eating in The Pit, Al tried to apologize to Tris for
what he did. She told him to left her alone and that she would killed him if he
touch her. However, Tris did not wish to forgave him because Tris were
disappointed with his action last night, because Tris were almost killed by
him. The commisives acts from Tri‟s utterance is when she were promised
4) Expressive
Expressive are those kinds of speech acts that state what the speaker
Speakers of a language often express feelings to the listener when they speak.
By doing so, the speakers have performed the expressive acts. They have the
towards a state of affairs which the illocution presupposes. These speech acts
express the speaker‟s inner state which says nothing about the world. As the
pleasure, pain, likes, dislikes, joy, or sorrow which are experienced by the
speaker. The data below are the types of expressive acts, those are:
a. Condoling
Tris : “My mom and dad died today. They're gone. Now we have nothing.
We have no home, no faction. I don't even know who I am anymore..”
Four : “I know exactly who you are”.
Context
Tris and Natalie (Tris‟s mom) as they made a ran for it. They fought back, but
Natalie is shot in the side and quickly dies. Tris heled her mother and cried.
She went to find her father and her brother Caleb in a safe house. She cried to
controlled Dauntless members. Andrew (Tris‟s dad) shot at them and killed
them, but he is shot and also dies quickly. Caleb cried over his father, and Tris
briefly mourns him as well. Tris is so sad today, she had to lose both her
parents. It happens when Natalierescues her daughter, and Tris realizes that
her mother was indeed a former Dauntless. They took their weaponed to
defend themselves. Now she didnot had anyone else except his brother Caleb,
and Four. Tris also did not have the faction.In this dialogue, Tris's speech
b. Deploring
Four : “No, it's not because of you. He made his own choice.”
Context
From the dialogue, Tris and Christina came across the chasm where
some Dauntless members are pulling out a body. It's Al, having jumped to his
death out of guilt. Tris felt somewhat responsible for this. Tris admited to
Four she is not sure she would pass her final testing either. When Four asked
why, Tris said that Four knew she is Divergent. Four acknowledges that he
knew, and said that he is went to help her.Tris felt so sad because AL died
suicide after he tried to kill Tris. She deeply regrets and blamed herself for the
death of Al. Four said "No, it's not because of you. He made his own choice.
"This is not a mistake of his own choice to end his life when he later has no
c. Apologizing
Tris‟s utterancewhich are involved in ordering of directive
Tris : “Sorry”.
Context
three masked guys. They carry her and nearly throw her into the chasm, but
she fought herself out. She unmasks one of them, shocked to see it is Al. She
fought them off and Four came in to her rescue. He tends to her wounds, and
she expressed disbelief that Al would attack her. Four said that it iss because
Tris : “Thanks.”
Context
From the dialogue, after Tris returned from the knives arena, she
greeted by her friends who praised for her courage. The other members,
sarcastically while adding that there is a news report on both Tris and Caleb
and their both choosing to leave Abnegation for other factions.Tris were
suffered a wound at her ear because of his Four‟s blade. Tris‟s utterance is
5) Declarative
utterance which is produced. That acts bring about some alteration in the status
or condition of the referred to object or object solely in virtue of the fact that
can change the world via the words. As Searle in (Yule 1996:53) stated that
declarative is kinds of speech act that change the world via their utterance.
When the speaker utters a declaration, his/her words bring about a new state of
affair. The word can change which is intended to refer any situation. It can
change of the status of a person or, the ownership of something. The verbs
a. Naming
Context
From the dialogue, Beatrice arrived in the Dauntless faction with all
the other members. They ran wild, climbing to the top of the elevated train
tracks and chasing after the train as it goes so they can hop onto it before it's
too late. Beatrice met a Candor member, named Christina. Then, they had to
jump off the moving train onto a rooftop. Dauntless leader Eric gathers
everyone over the edge of the rooftop for them to jump into a hole. He asked
for a volunteer to go first, and Beatrice steps forward. After some hesitation,
she jumped into the hole and landed on a net. She is pulled out by Dauntless
instructor Four. He asked for her name, Tris said that “Bea” but Four asked
again, “is it difficult my question”. Then Tris repeated his words. She
introduced herself that her name is Tris. She changed her name Beatrice to
Tris made easier to be remembered. Tris‟s utterances here are included in the
declarative (Naming) which told all that her name is Tris not Beatrice. It is
clear that word can change the world with word and she decides to call herself
'Tris'.
b. Declare
From the dialogue, Four met with Marcus, his father, and he is
obviously uneasy. Despite this, both Marcus and Caleb join Tris and Four as
they board the train heading out of Dauntless. Tris is sad over the loss of her
parents and she still did not knew where she belongs. Four said that he did
knew. Tris narrates again, saying that they felt like the factionless, having
lost their homes and loved ones. However, they would continue to fight if
they must.Tris and Four went to a far off area by a train took them outside
the city wall to Amity. Tris told Four that now she had no anyone else and
because Tris had told all people what are happened after those sad events.
CHAPTER V
A. Conclusions
present by Tris as the main character in the movie, through the dialogue.
Based on the findings, there are five types illocutionary acts expressed by
commonly spoken by the main character herself. Because in this movie, she
goes condition that she really have never got before and it is real.
Representative explains that believe to be the case, but on the other sides, it
does not obligate to ourself, others also can believe that. This research reveals
that Tris as a great woman who understand who she is, and to what faction she
belongs. She has a great ability to solve her problems and to dominatie as the
Then, the illocutionary acts of directive are seldom used by the main
character in her utterances. In this movie, she is not a person who commands
someone else to do her willingness. Actually, there are some things included
explained above when the speaker wants the listener to do something with
what the speaker expresses. But on the other sides, it does not obligate the
listener to do that.
to know the intended meaning of the utterance. Context has an important role
B. Suggestion
In this research, the research analyzes speech acts, especially illocutionary
acts, to give more attention to the form of speech acts; direct and indiret, literal
and non-literal. So they do not only find the explicit meanings but also the
implicit ones. For the linguistics students, who are interested in analyzing movie
using pragmatic approach as its basic analysis, they can analyze deixis,
implicature or pressupposition.
The researcher hopes this research will be useful for the readers and
illocutionary acts. The researcher also expects this research result can become
speech acts with the different objects, such as comics, magazines, short stories,
novels, etc. Finally, the researcher hopes that this study will give benefit to
Austin, J.L.1962. How to Do Things with Word. London : Oxford University Press.
Bodgan, RC., and Taylor, S. 1975. Qualitative Research Methods, New York : John
Willey
Saldana, J. 2009. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. London : SAGE
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Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. New york: London: Oxford University Press.
An Analysis of Illocutionary acts in “Divergent” movie by Neil Burger 2014
There is three classification of speech act, the first is Locutionary act, second
is Illocutionary act and the last is Perlocutionary act.According to Searle (in Yule,
1996: 53), the classification of illocutionaryacts in to five main types :
1. Representative
Believe to be the case.
2. Directive
The speaker to get someone else to do something.
3. Comissive
Express what speaker‟s intends.
4. Expressive
Feelings to the listener when they speak.
5. Declarative
When the speaker utters a declaration, his or her words bring about a new
state of affair.
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00:16:52,812 --> 00:16:55,647
I'm sure your parents will
support
whatever choice you make.
Tris
00:16:55,648-->00:16:58,415
“That's not suposed to be a
choice.”
00:16:59,485-->00:17:02,026
“The test should tell us what
to do.”
00:17:02,187-->00:17:05,290
“but you don't really want
that.”
Tris
00:38:25,636-->00:38:27,538
“You're Candor. You're
not supposed to lie”.
3. Beatrice really
Tris chooseDauntless and she
00:40:26,224-->00:40:30,259 confident that Dauntless
“I'm Dauntless. I'm going to its her faction.
beDauntless. I chose
Dauntless.”
Tori
00:40:31,729 --> 00:40:35,531
For your sake, I hope so.
Four
00:48:43,254 --> 00:48:45,287
I meant to.
Tris
00:48:46,223-->00:48:47,758
“You meant to?”
00:48:54,699-->00:48:57,365
“So am I supposed to thank
you?”
Tris
00:50:15,445-->00:50:18,248
“They didn't beat anyone.
They're good people.”
Tris
01:13:39,916-->01:13:43,519
“Me? No, no, my God, it was
awful.”
01:14:02,939-->01:14:04,706
“I don't have a trick.”
01:14:21,223-->01:14:24,825
“No, I... I'm not doing
anything.”
01:19:19,255-->01:19:22,123
“No. That's just what they're
telling you here...”
01:19:22,124-->01:19:24,025
“It's not true.”
01:19:24,026-->01:19:25,360
“It's not.”
01:19:27,029-->01:19:29,097
“There are people who
knowhow to manipulate you.”
01:20:06,268-->01:20:08,368
“Yeah, I'm fine.”
Tris
01:59:39,572-->01:59:41,874
“Every minute we waste,
another Abnegation dies,
01:59:41,875-->01:59:44,310
and another Dauntless
becomes a murderer.”
02:02:30,176-->02:02:32,978
Four... Four, it's me.
You're in a sim.
02:02:46,593-->02:02:47,693
Four.
Jeanie
02:02:32,979 -->02:02:35,446
He can't hear you.
Tris
00:11:53,313-->00:11:55,247
“That's impossible. It
doesn't make any sense.”
Tori
00:11:55,248 --> 00:11:59,583
No. Not impossible. It's
just extremely rare.
00:02:45,509-->00:02:48,767
“factions, to keep the peace.”
00:02:50,770-->00:02:54,539
“The smart ones, the ones
whovalue knowledge and
logic.”
00:02:55,008-->00:02:57,308
“are in Erudite.”
00:02:57,677-->00:02:59,512
“They know everything.”
00:03:00,648-->00:03:03,049
“Amity farm the land.”
00:03:03,050-->00:03:07,485
“They're all about kindness
and harmony, always happy.”
00:03:09,389-->00:03:12,392
“Candor value honesty and
order.”
00:03:12,393-->00:03:16,027
“They tell the truth, even
When you wish they
wouldn't.”
00:03:17,030-->00:03:18,931
“And then there's Dauntless.”
00:03:18,932-->00:03:23,903
“They're our protectors,
our soldiers, our police.”
00:03:42,756-->00:03:45,257
“The others all call us "stiffs.”
00:03:45,758-->00:03:47,560
“We lead a simple life ,”
00:03:47,561-->00:03:50,763
“selfless, dedicated
to helping others.”
00:03:50,764-->00:03:52,965
“We even feed the
Factionless,”
00:03:52,966-->00:03:55,366
“the ones who don't fit in
anywhere.”
00:03:56,369-->00:03:58,438
“Because we're public
servants,”
00:03:58,439-->00:04:01,374
“we're trusted to run
the government.”
00:04:01,375-->00:04:05,076
“My father works alongside
our leader, Marcus.”
00:04:08,114-->00:04:11,649
“It all works. Everyone
knows where they belong.”
00:04:11,951-->00:04:14,218
“Except for me .”
00:06:09,936-->00:06:11,969
“Am I smart?”
00:06:13,539-->00:06:16,907
“Kind? Am I honest?”
00:06:17,610-->00:06:21,514
“Selfless? Or brave?”
00:58:43,753-->00:58:45,953
“No, we need to go higher.”
Four
01:28:36,044 -->01:28:38,578
I'm not gonna let that happen.
18. She said that she was sick
Dad when test begins.
00:13:36,916 -->00:13:39,184
Why did you just leave
without telling anybody?
Tris
00:13:39,185-->00:13:41,151
“I was sick.”
Stating 19. Many people said that
Dauntless so crazy, but
00:03:33,946-->00:03:35,815 they are who always save
“Some people think Dauntless the community of
are crazy,” country.
00:03:35,816-->00:03:38,017
“which they kind of are”
00:05:40,206-->00:05:41,908
“For my brother Caleb, it's
easy.”
00:05:42,943-->00:05:45,276
“He's a natural.”
00:38:17,061-->00:38:18,662
“I'm never gonna make it.
00:38:20,532-->00:38:22,099
“I'm the weakest one here.”
23. Beatrice want to know
what the faction who she
00:12:16,971-->00:12:19,572 chose and what should be
“This was supposed to tell me trusted from the result of
what faction to choose, the test.
test.”
00:12:19,573-->00:12:24,241
“We're supposed to trust the
test.”
01:38:00,976 -->01:38:03,077
So you get past your fears
the way a Dauntless would,
01:38:03,078 -->01:38:04,645
but do it quickly.
Tris
01:38:04,646-->01:38:09,416
“Right. If I'm too good, then
they'll kill me, and if I'm too
slow, then I'll die.”
Tris
01:49:09,844-->01:49:12,211
“Think you might be
Overestimating my
character.”
Tris
01:57:05,852-->01:57:08,486
“She saved me.”
Tris
01:57:39,853-->01:57:41,320
“They don't know what
they're doing.”
01:57:41,321-->01:57:44,390
“They're under simulation.”
01:57:44,391-->01:57:46,759
“We need to wake 'em up.
I need to get into Dauntless.”
Tris
00:38:40,419-->00:38:43,385
“Even if my parents
would take me back,
00:38:44,188-->00:38:46,755
I wouldn't belong there
anymore.”
Tris
00:59:00,903-->00:59:03,603
“I didn't think you were
afraid of anything”
Eric
“Then it should be easy foryou
to take his place”.
Tris
01:27:05,054-->01:27:07,689
“You need to stay away from
me!”
00:58:02,045-->00:58:04,047
“You don't have to come with
me.”
Tris
01:28:01,610-->01:28:03,811
“Leave me alone.”
01:53:17,657-->01:53:20,792
Will! Will, stop! Stop!
01:53:21,361-->01:53:25,498
Stop!
02:01:15,968-->02:01:19,270
“Watch Caleb. I'm going in
there.”
42. Beatrice ask to Four to
02:03:31,504-->02:03:35,241 look at her, to stop what
“Four, it's me. It's me.” he do it.
02:03:35,242-->02:03:37,708
“Please, Four, look at me.
Look at me.”
02:03:57,930-->02:03:59,964
“Four! It's me!”
02:05:02,061-->02:05:03,961
“Four, look at me. Look at
me.”
02:05:06,599-->02:05:09,134
“It's me. It's me.”
02:05:09,135--> 02:05:12,002
“It's me. It's me.”
02:10:24,516-->02:10:26,251
“They're gone.”
02:10:40,565-->02:10:42,501
“Now we have nothing.”
02:10:42,502-->02:10:45,102
“We have no home, no
faction...”
02:10:50,309-->02:10:52,929
“I don't even know who I am
anymore..”
Deploring 48. Beatrice blaming herself
Tris for Al‟s demise.
01:28:06,681-->01:28:08,483
“It's my fault that he's dead.”
Four
01:28:08,484 -->01:28:11,652
No, it's not because of you.
He made his own choice.
01:53:53,126-->01:53:58,197
“I killed him. I killed
him. I killed him.”
Tris : “Sorry”.
00:49:33,304-->00:49:35,270
Tris : “Thanks.”
00:26:56,382-->00:26:58,415
Tris : It's bea...
00:27:07,092-->00:27:10,794
Okay... My name's Tris.
53.
02:07:34,447-->02:07:36,880 Beatrice said that she
You're right. Divergent.
02:07:37,883-->02:07:39,752
I'm not.
02:07:39,753-->02:07:41,685
I'm Divergent.
Declare 54.
02:11:25,677-->02:11:28,180
We're like the Factionless
now.
02:11:28,181-->02:11:31,149
“We've left everything
behind,”
02:11:31,150-->02:11:34,418
but we found ourselves
and each other.
02:11:36,088-->02:11:39,624
Tomorrow we may have
to fight again,
02:11:39,625--> 02:11:43,028
but, for now, we'll ride the
train to the end of the line...