Investigation of Illocutionary Acts Uttered by the Characters tn the Brave Movie

The research aimed to determine the sorts and most prevalent illocutionary acts used by characters in Brave animated movie. act was defined as purpose for which speaker utters something. focused on main character entire conversation between each applied a qualitative method where data were taken from script uttered all of movie who acts. collection technique done five steps; made analyzing format, watched searched script, read repeatedly, identified utterances, classified utterances meaning into act. basic theory proposed Searle Austin. There 85 found movie, it divided classifications: representative, directive, expressive, declarative, commissive. result shows that there are 10 (11,76%) representative acts, 42 (49,41) directive 0 commissive act, 19 (22,35%) expressive declarative As result, directives predominate