DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN THE L'ENFANT FILM BY JEAN PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE

Abstract

This research aims to descibe the types of directive speech acts contained in L'enfant, a film by Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The approach used is qualitative approach with analysis content method, and the data is all utterances which indicate directive speech acts in the film.

The theory used in this research is the types of directive speech acts according to Searle, such as demander, ordonner, commander, requête, mendier, prier, supplier, implorer, permettre, inviter and conseiller. Data analysis techniques refer to technique from Milles and Huberman namely data reduction, data presentation and conclusion.

The results of this research that there are 135 directive speech acts found in the L'enfant film by Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Among those 135 directive speech acts, there are 10 types of directive speech acts such as demander, ordonner, commander, requete, mendier, supplier, implorer, permettre, inviter and conseiller which is dominated by 57 utterances of demander type, and the least is the implorer type with only 1 utterance.