Directive illocutionary acts in the Toy Story 4 movie

Directive illocutionary speech act is utterances that can invite the interlocutor to do something or not to do something and the interlocutor is able to do so or under the right conditions. Therefor this study aimed to describe: 1) the forms of directive speech act and 2) the types of directive speech act in the Toy Story 4 movie. The main theory used in this research was from Austin (2004) and Searl (1983). The data source in this study was from the Toy Story 4 movie by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney. This research used descriptive qualitative method. Based on data analysis, the findings showed there were 62 data directive illocutionary speech act with the forms of: literal direct (28 data), literal indirect (20 data), non-literal direct (7 data), non-literal indirect (7 data) and the types of: requirement (23 data), requestive (21 data), advisory (9 data), question (4 data), permissive (4 data), prohibitive (1 data). From the findings it is concluded that these directive speech acts are often used to express their requests or desires to their interlocutors which indicates that there are differences in social position between the characters in the film so that those with higher social positions can freely give orders to those with low social positions