AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER “SHANG-CHI” IN SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS MOVIE

Abstract

This study represents the study of pragmatics focusing on one of the types of speech acts, that is, directive speech act. Pragmatic studies related to the use of directive speech acts and their varieties in movies are still few. Focusing on such an issue, this research intended to find out the kinds of directive speech acts found in the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Movie and investigate the dominant kinds of directive speech acts used in the movie. To achieve the objective, the researchers used a descriptive qualitative method to describe kinds of directive speech acts from the main character “Shang-Chi” in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The procedure for data collection and analysis was through library research, in which observation and documentation were used as research instruments to collect the data. The result of data analysis revealed that there were 4 types of directive speech acts used by the main character “Shang-Chi” in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”. They are commanding, inviting, requesting, and suggesting. Commanding serves the dominant frequency of all types of directive speech acts. Data on commanding are 12 (63.16 %), followed by requesting with 4 (21.05 %) data. The next position of directive speech is suggesting with 2 (10.53 %) data while inviting is the lowest frequency in use, with 1 (5.26 %) data.