A Pragmatic Analysis of Expressive Speech Act Found in Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Movie Script

This research is devoted to acts of expressive speech violence in film scripts. The aims of this study were (1) to find out the types of expressive speech acts in the film "Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", (2) to find out from the expressive speech acts performed by the characters in the film "Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", and The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The data used were taken from expressive speech acts contained in the film script "Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". This research use the technique of collecting the data by documentation. Data analysis in this study uses the theory of expressive speech acts from Seale (1969). This study found twelve types of expressive speech acts, namely apologizing, thanking, congratulating, praising, greeting, expressing joy, surprise, anger, hope, rejection, sadness and ridicule. The speaker's intent is to express their emotions, responses, or attitudes about a particular situation, event, or person. The intended meaning of expressive speech acts is conveying emotions, such as admiration, thanks, apologies, congratulating, condolences, and other subjective responses