Tony Stark and His Directives at Iron Man, The Movie

ABSTRAK Aziz, Maulana. 2018. Tony Stark and His Directives at Iron Man, The Movie. Sarjana’s Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisors: (1) Aulia Apriana, S.S, M.Pd, (2) Dr. Suharyadi, S.Pd, M.Pd Keywords: directive acts, main character, Tony Stark, Iron Man movie Communication is one way to express ideas, feelings, and emotions. The speakers do not only communicate by producing the utterances containing grammatical structures and words, but also perform actions through utterances. Directive speech act is an act which is used to get someone to do something, not merely giving an order or making a request. According to meaning and context of the utterance, there are a variety of actions that can be performed through directive speech act according to Vanderveken (1990), such as requesting, asking, commanding, ordering suggesting, advising, inviting, and so on. This study aims to find out the types and frequency of directive acts employed by Tony Stark in Iron Man movie by using qualitative approach. The data are in the form of Iron Man movie script. Since the object of this study is a film, the main instrument for collecting the data is the writer himself; it means that the writer chose, collected, and analyzed the data (movie script), without using any other instrument such as scales, questionaires, surveys, formula, etc. The data reveals that directive acts performed by Tony Stark in the movie covered 150 utterances. Those are categorized as directive acts of commanding 52 utterances (34.7%), asking of 45 utterances (30%), requesting 18 utterances (12%), advising 12 utterances (8%), ordering 9 utterances (6%), suggesting 8 utterances (5.3%), and forbidding 6 utterances (4%). Directive acts of commanding and asking are most frequently used by the Tony Stark; for he would like to maintain his status as the leader towards the other characters. On the other hand, there are five types of directive acts which rarely used by Tony Stark, namely, directive acts of requesting, advising ordering, suggesting and forbidding. It can finally be concluded that this research found all of the seven types of directive acts according to Vanderveken (1990) used by Tony Stark of Iron Man movie. The writer suggests that students of pragmatics should try to analyze speech acts in their favorite film to make the investigation process more fun. Future researchers may investigate directive acts not only in movie dialogues, but also in other dialogues on television, radio, advertisements, and newspapers