EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACT USED IN "HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN" MOVIE

ABSTRACT Ningrum, Yesi Santika. Student Registered Number. 17203163081. Expressive Speech Act Used in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” movie. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Hj. Ida Isnawati, M.Pd. Keywods: Pragmatics, Expressive Speech Act, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. A communication will be achieve if the speaker can deliver the purpose in conversation towards the hearer and the hearer catches the point of the conversation. A study on observing language used for communication is called pragmatics. It is analyzed how the language is used for communication and the interconnected between one and another. A branch in pragmatics that study about meaning of the utterances in conversation is called speech act. Speech act maintains the language main function in order to carry significant action that concerned in socially. This research discusses about pragmatics analysis of speech act in the use of language on movie’s dialogue. The speech act which is analyzed in this research is the expressive act that performed by the characters in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. The researcher formulated the problems in this research: (1) What are the expressive acts expressed by the characters in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” movie script? (2) What is the intended meaning of expressive acts expressed by the main characters in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” movie script? The purposes in this research were: (1) The researcher wants to know what kinds of expressive speech act that found in the movie’s dialogue. (2) To know what were the intended meaning on each kind of expressive speech act that has been found. The research method in this research: The research design in this study is qualitative approach. Content analysis form is chosen by the researcher since the purpose is to describe the phenomenon that occurs inside Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban movie. The data source of this study was the script dialogue Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’s movie. The step to analyse the data were: (a) Identifying conversation in the movie, (b) classifying the data utterances (c) analyzing the utterances based on the expressive act, (d) evaluating all the results of the analysis, (f) draw the conclusion from the analysis in this research. Totally there are 161 utterances from the beginning until the end that containing illocutionary act expressive speech act, with 13 kinds of expression based on Yule, Searle and Norick theories. The most expressive act that used in this movie is expression of dislike with the frequency 24 times appear. The researcher concludes every utterance that has been analyzed in this research has their own intended meaning by interpreted the utterances with the context situation which happened