A STUDY OF SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN MAN OF STEEL

Language is the most important aspect to analyze a literary work. It is because, language in literature function to convey the researcher or speakers intention. One of the literary works is movie. Most of the utterances of the speakers usually show the particular meaning (locutionary acts), the situation when the utterance are uttered, the intended meaning (illocutionary acts) and the effect intended by the speaker (perlocutionary acts). Thus, by their utterances, the speakers also present their acts, this is called speech acts. As a study, the researcher takes the main characters’ speech and in Man of Steel movie for the object, because there is certain intended meaning in the most of main characters utterances. the main characters have closeness relationship and same experiences in word views. So, they can catch meaning intended by one of them.
For the study, the researcher uses speech acts theory presented by Yule, Clark, Kempson, and Short. All of them said that speech acts is a branch of pragmatic study. They state that there are aspects in speech acts, those are locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts.
This study is qualitative research and the data are described in form of interpretation and description. The data are taken just in the most significant of main characters’ speech acts describing the situation. The researcher analyzes locutionary, the background of the situation, illocutionary, and perlocutionary of the utterances.
The result of this study, the researcher finds that the most locutionary acts used by the main characters are declarative and for illocutionary acts is representatives, where the situations in that time also take a part to conclude illocutionary type. This topic shows that behind main characters’ utterance there is certain meaning intended by both of them, such as expectation, refusal, warning, etc. the researcher also finds that there is intended effect by the speaker in the their utterances.