Indirect Speech Act Found In Prison Break Season 1 Television Series

Indirect speech act is one of pragmatic study that worth to analyze. This research is a study of speech act types like commanding, requesting, asking and etcetera that conveyed indirectly. The data source of this research was utterances of Prison Break Season 1 Television Series which contain indirect speech act. The types of indirect speech act those found in the films was directive, representative, and commisive. Directive is the dominant type. It includes commanding, permitting, requesting, suggesting, advising and asking. Next is commisive. It is include rejecting, threatening, cautioning, and offering. Last is representative. It includes denying, mocking, answering, concurring and informing. The indirect speech acts are expressed in various strategy. The dominants are using stating a statement and asking a question. The reasons why the speaker uses indirect speech act are to making the primary action more polite or to insinuate.