An Analysis of Speech Act on Civil War Movie

Abstract

This research aims to analyze speech act found in Civil War movie. This research focuses on the conversation between Captain America and Iron Man. The method used in this research is qualitative using conversation analysis. The data were collected from conversation script between Captain America and Iron Man. The result of this research shows that in the conversation between Captain America and Iron Man. It was found that there are three kind of speech acts used between Captain America and Iron Man. They are locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. The most speech act frequently used is locutionary act with total number is 33 (46%). While the second speech act frequently used is illocutionary act that are 23 (33%). For perlocutionary act is only found 15 (21%). In locutionary act, the conversations consisted of rhetic and phatic act. Illocutionary act dominated by asking and answering and perlocutionary act involved sarcasm, joke and caution.