Title: Imperative Sentence In “Resident Evil: Afterlife” Movie Script by Paul W.S. Anderson: Speech Act Analysis
Abstract: Imperative sentence has some unique features. Imperative sentence gives a command to someone to do something’s. In the “Resident evil: Afterlife” movie script, the writer finds so many imperative sentences with kinds of it and speech act used. That is why the writer choose “Resident Evil: Afterlife” movie script as her data source.
The aims of this analysis are (i) to find out the kinds of imperative sentence in “Resident Evil: Afterlife” movie script by Paul W.S. Anderson. (ii) To describe the speech act used of imperative sentence in “Resident Evil: Afterlife” movie script by Paul W.S. Anderson.
The method of this research is qualitative; it was based on descriptive method, which is also called qualitative research. The data are the imperative sentence in “Resident Evil: Afterlife” movie script by Paul W.S. Anderson. In analyzing the data, first the writer identify the imperative sentence in “Resident Evil: Afterlife” movie script. Second, the writer describes the speech act used in imperative sentence.
After analyzing the data, the writer obtained that there are 53 imperative sentences that the writer found. In this research, the writer analyze the kind of imperative sentence in Resident Evil “Afterlife” movie script by Paul W.S. Anderson. They are: 45 imperative sentences as Affirmative Imperative, 5 imperative sentences as Negative Imperative, 0 imperative sentences as Emphatic Form, 4 imperative sentences as Addressing Someone, 0 imperative sentences as Imperative with question tags and 3 imperative sentences as Imperative joined by ‘and’. The majority of kinds of imperative sentence are affirmative imperative. In speech act analysis, the writer analyzing locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. The writer found 45 imperative sentences as command, 2 sentences as wish, 5 sentences as advice, there is no sentence as instruction, 1 sentence as giving permission, 3 sentences as threat, 1 sentence as warning The majority of illocutionary act function is command.
The writer hope the reader can use this skripsi as a reference for them to increase their understanding about imperative sentence. And the lecturer can use movie script as media in teaching material of imperative sentence and speech act used in imperative sentence.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-03-12
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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