Analysis of Speech Act “Greeting” in Film Love Actually

Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication different social backgrounds and contexts (Mey, 2001). In field pragmatics, analysis speech act constitutes one majority related research (Austin, 1962). Speech is significant to linguistic phenomena that occur spoken language, particularly movies. For this study, it choose movie Love Actually as data investigate acts, greeting. British famous romantic comedy, displaying love stories various characters such Prime Minister, singer, writer. Focusing on greeting, essay will discuss its classification based Ebsworth et al. (2009), combine with Brown Levinson’s (1987) politeness strategies bring more implications education.