Speech Act Analysis of Commisive Utterance in Maleficent Disney Movie (2014)

This aims of this study are (1) to find the illocutionary act of commisive utterance used in the movie script Maleficent Disney movie (2014) and (2) to find out the politeness strategy of commisive utterance used in the movie script of Maleficent disney movie (2014). The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The data in this research is are utterances which contain the intention of commissive utterance and politeness strategy used by the characters. The data siurce are the manuscript and its film. in collecting the data, the researcher used documentation and observation methods. The researcher used the theory by Austin (1962), Searle (1979) to find out the intention of commissive utterance and Brown and Levinson (1987) theory in identifying the politeness strategy. The result of the research revealed that: (1) there are five teen commissive utterance used by the characters in this movie such as promising 46,6%, swearing 13,3%, volunteering 33,3%, and threatening 6,6%. (2) there are four types of politeness strategies such as bald on record 33,3%, negative politeness 8,3%, positive politeness 41,6%, off-record 16,6 %. Promising and positive politeness strategy becomes the most dominant of the intention of commissive utterance and politeness strategy used by the characters in this movie