The Illocutionary Act in Fantastic Beast: The Crime of Grindelwald
Keywords:
Fantastic Beast, Illocutionary Act, The context of situation, Types of illocutionary actAbstract
The title of this research is "The Illocutionary Act in Fantastic Beast: The Crime of Grindelwald." This research aims to describe the types of illocutionary acts based on Searle's theory and supported by the context of situation based on Halliday Hasan's theory that appears in the movie. A qualitative descriptive approach was applied in this research. The data source of this research was the utterance of Newt Scamander in the movie entitled Fantastic Beast: The Crime of Grindelwald. The data were the illocutionary acts found in Newt Scamander's utterances in dialogues. The method in collecting the data was the observation method. It was done by watching the movie several times and taking notes on the dialogues based on the types of illocutionary acts and also identifying the context of situation that appears in the movie. Based on the research, the five types of illocutionary acts were found in the movie: assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declaration. The context of situation has three features they are field, tenor, and mode. The data relating to the field of the context of situation found in the movie were different and mostly took place in Paris. The tenor of the conversation are Newt, Queenie, Jacob, Bunty, Leta, Theseus, and The Committee of The Ministry of Magic. Regarding the mode, the mode used in the conversation was verbal language and mostly uttered with a casual style.