Love Expression In Divergent Movie: A Pragmalinguistics Study

This research focuses on (1) linguistics form of love expression are used by characters in Divergent movie, and (2) speaker intention of love expression are used by characters in Divergent movie. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research are the entire excerpts which contained love expression in the Divergent movie. The researcher used document analysis to collect the data. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Frank’s theory (1972) of the linguistics form of love expression and Yule’s theory (1996) of speaker’s intention of love expression. As a result, the researcher found four types of linguistics form in sentence, those are 26 data (68%) as declarative sentence, 4 data (11%) as interrogative, 3 data (8%) as imperative sentence, and 5 data (13%) as exclamatory sentence. Then, the researcher found six speaker’s intention of love expression are used by characters in Divergent movie those are 5 data (13%) as admitting love, 4 data (11 %) as supporting, 9 data (23%) as showing sympathy, 6 data (16%) as showing compliment, 10 data (26%) as showing care, and 4 data (11%) as feeling worry of being left. Based on the result above, the researcher concluded that the types of linguistics form and speaker’s intention of love expression are used by the characters in Divergent movie was quite vary. As the native speakers they have the ability to express love very well