Pragmatics Analysis on The Classification and Types of Directive Speech Acts in Raya and The Last Dragon Movie

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out the classification and the types of directive speech acts found in Raya and the last Dragon Movie. The research method used in this research is the descriptive method, as it was carried out by collecting, analyzing, classifying the data and presenting the results of data analysis. The main data of this research were taken from the utterances of the main characters in Raya and the last Dragon movie containing directive illocutionary speech acts which are focused on the classification of directive speech acts; commanding, ordering, requesting, warning and suggesting (Yule,1963; Peccei,1999), and the types of directive speech acts are categorized into four; direct literal, direct non-literal, indirect literal, indirect non-literal (Wijana,1996).From the analyzed data, the results of this research showed that of 35 data, the classification of directive speech acts found in Raya and the last Dragon movie; 11 data (31,4%) ordering, 8 data (22.9%) requesting, 7 data (20%) suggesting, 5 data (14,3 %) commanding, 4 data (11,4%) warning, while the types of directive speech acts are as follows; 16 data (45,7%) direct literal, 8 data (22,85%) direct non-literal, 8 data (22,85%) indirect literal, and 3 data (18,6%) indirect non-literal speech acts