EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL MOVIE

Abstract

This study aims to find out the types of expressive speech acts that are used in Alita: Battle Angel Movie by using a theory of (Searle, 1979). The utterances were taken from the movie where the form of research design was descriptive qualitative with the interactive model (Miles, Huberman, & Saldaña, 2014) as a technique of analysis. the result of this study found that there are 128 utterances that contained expressive speech acts namely thank (16 utterances), congratulate (9 utterances), apologize (21 utterances), condole (4 utterances), deplore (68 utterances), and welcome (10 utterances).