Expressive Acts and The Response Uttered By The Characters In Frozen Movie

This research explained about expressive act and perlocutionary act used by the characters in the movie entitled Frozen Movie. The researcher discussed the type of expressive act and the response of expressive acts. This research aims to find the types of expressive act in the utterance and elaborates the response of the utterance. The researcher analyzed the data using the descriptive qualitative method. The researcher collected the expressive acts and perlocutionary acts by highlighting and coding the utterances of characters in the movie. The researcher was the main instruments in identifying and analyzing the data. The researcher uses Searle’s theory to analyze the data. This research is devide into two parts of analysis; analysis of the types of expressive acts and analysis of the response of expressive acts As the result of this research, the researcher found there are nine types of expressive acts. The kinds are apologizing thanking, surprising, cursing, blaming, regretting, greeting, appreciation, and praising. Then, the researcher analyzed the perlocutionary act used by the main interlocutor’s character which includes that there are five types of perlocutionary utterance. They are to amuse, the hearer’s doing something, inspire, distract attention, and persuade