Speech Act Analysis on Walt Disney Film Entitled 'Frozen' (A Pragmatic Study)

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

linguistics; pragmatics; speech act; film

Abstract

Film as one media of communication can deliver message to the audience. It has various genre which becomes interesting subject to investigate. The utterance on the film, especially children genre, which is used by the character can influence the language acquisition on children when they watch the film. This study tries to identify the types of speech act on film entitled Frozen through pragmatics approach. This film is chosen since it is very famous and one representation of children genre. This is descriptive qualitative study which reveals the data through the transcript of the utterance in the film entitled Frozen. In collecting the data, the writers transcribed the data comprehensively. The writers analyse the data of the speech act types on film entitled Frozen. There are four types of speech act which occur on film entitled Frozen. Those types are representative, expressive, directive, and commisive. Children can imitate and adopt those utterances which indicate one or more types of speech act. It gives the contribution to the children language acquisition.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Sukasih Ratna Widayanti
AU  - Kustinah Kustinah
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Speech Act Analysis on Walt Disney Film Entitled 'Frozen' (A Pragmatic Study)
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 429
EP  - 433
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.79
DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.79
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