Illocutionary Acts Uttered by Main Character, Dewey Finn in School of Rock Movie

Abstract

This thesis entitled Illocutionary Acts Uttered by Main Character, Dewey Finn in School of Rock Movie. The aims of this thesis are to find out the types, the dominant type, the functions types and the implications used by main character School of Rock movie. The design of this research is conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. There are 125 utterances spoken by main character were classified into illocutionary acts. The finding shows that there are four types of illocutionary acts used by the main character in School of Rock movie. They are Directives 69 utterances (55.2%), representatives 38 utterances (30.4%), expressive 13 utterances (10.4%) and   commisives with 5 utterances (4%), while declarative is not found in this movie. And Directives is the most dominant type of illocutionary acts used by main character in School of Rock movie. Next, there are 21 functions of illocutionary acts used by main character in School of Rock movie. They are questioning, asking, informing, answering, asserting, requesting, commanding, describing, thanking, greeting, stating pleasure, predicting, stating an opinion, vowing, threatening, advising, warning, offering, statement of pain, stating unpleasure, statement of like. The questioning is 36 utterances (28.8%) as the most dominant function of illocutionary acts used by the main character, Dewey Finn in School of Rock movie.