The Study on the Assertive Illocutionary Acts of the Main Characters in My Sister’s Keeper Movie Script by Nick Cassavetes and Jeremy Leven

Viajeng Indraswuri

 

Abstract

This research discusses the use of assertive illocutionary acts uttered by the main characters in My Sister’s Keeper movie script by Nick Cassavetes and Jeremy Leven. It explores how the acts of assertives are conveyed by the main characters in the whole movie script. The purposes of this study are to find the types of assertive acts uttered by the main characters, the intended meanings of utterances, and the main characters’ purposes in using such assertives. This research applies speech act theory to analyze the use of assertive act in conversation. This study is a qualitative research and it uses document as the source of the data that is My Sister’s Keeper movie script. The results of this study show that there are six types of assertive uttered by the main characters. The main characters’ purposes in uttering those assertives are because they have different thoughts which are showed through assertive utterances. Those utterances have the intended meanings that are influenced by the context of situation in every phenomenon. Mostly, the utterances are intended to make the hearer understand and consider something which happens in speakers’ life.

Keywords: Assertive illocutionary act, types of assertive, intended meaning, speakers’ purposes, context of situation