AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN THE DANISH GIRL

Abstract

In every communication, there is an implied speech uttered by speakers to convey information related to feelings and thoughts, so that other people can understand what the speakers need. Therefore, the utterances spoken by a person or speaker have meaning or intent to be conveyed to the listener. This paper aims to analyze the types of directive speech acts and the meaning of directive speech acts uttered by Einar Wegener and Gerda Wegener in the film The Danish Girl. This research is descriptive qualitative method. The object of this research is the utterances containing the directive speech acts in The Danish Girl film. The method of data collection was observation by implementing note taking technique. All data were analyzed by applying the theory of Searle (2002).  The results showed that the types of directive speech acts found in this study are questioning, requesting, commanding, suggesting, forbidding, permitting, encouraging, and wishing. There are 91 questionings, 31 requestings, 24 commandings, 17 suggestings, 12 forbiddings, 5 permittings, 6 encouragings, and 4 wishings. The dominant meaning of directive speech act found in this study is asking which is included in the category of directive speech act of questioning.