CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

This chapter discusses the basic of this research. It consist of background

of the research, focus of study, objective of the research, significance of the

research, scope and limitation of the research, definition of key terms and

organization of the research.

A. Background of Study

In communication, context is important because context is needed

to help the hearer to understand the speaker‟s intention. Without context,

the hearer will find difficulty interpreting the meaning of the speaker‟s

utterance. When there is no context, the communication between the

speaker and the hearer will fail. The hearer may be confused or

misunderstand the speaker‟s intention.

Pragmatic is the study of relation between language and context

that are gramaticalized or encoded in structure of language (Nadar, 2009).

Context is an important thing in pragmatic study. Context is background

knowledge assumed to be shared by speaker and hearer and which

contributes to hearer‟s interpretation of what speaker means by given

utterance (Nadar, 2009).Beside context, there are other aspects of speech;

those are hearer and speaker, purpose of speech, etc.

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Speech act, according to Chojimah (20015: 31), is preceded from

philosopher„s opinion believing that sentence is meaningless unless its

truthfulness and falsity can e tested. The sentence having such property is

declarative ones whose function is to describe state of affairs. It means that

every sentence of the spoken people has some meanings in speech act

theoretically. In speech acts, the utterances also occur in a movie or film in

which the conversation happens among the characters. Therefore, the

writer chooses a Zootopia film to be analyzed, and then it will be classified

into types of illocutionary in speech act.

Through utterance, we can ask someone to help us to get what they

want. According to elite and Murcia (2000: 34), when we say something to

certain person, there are three dimensions of speech act: (1) locutionary

meaning based on the meaning of the linguistics expression. For example,

“I am thirsty” is a basic description of the speaker-„s state. (2)

illocutionary force when it acts as a request and has intended meaning

“please give me some water”. In addition perlocutionary force is the effect

the act has on addressee who suffers the consequences.

According to Huang (2007:102)} illocutionary act refers to the

type of the function the speaker intends to fulfill, or type of action the

speaker intends to accomplish in the course of producing an utterance.

Furthermore, according to Cruse (2000:332) illocutionary act are acts

which are internal to the locutionary act, in the sense that, if the contextual
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conditions are appropriate, once the locutionary act has been performed, so

has the illocutionary act.

Searle (1969:120-123) Categorize the most basic category of

illocutionary act. It consists of five different types such as the following

divisions: representative, directive, expressive, declarative, and

commisive.

Representative (A kind of illocutionary act that carries the values

`true or false'), Directive (to direct him or her towards some goal of the

speaker's mostly), Expressive (expresses an inner state of the speaker. The

expression is essentially subjective tells us nothing about the world),

Declaration (brings about a change in the world by uttering an

illocutionary act), Commisive (commits the speaker to some future course

of action).

Actually, illocutionary acts happen in social interaction exactly in

communication. Everything that people communicate to others with

utterances always has purposes. The purposes can be asking for help and

making promise, etc. these purpose can included in illocutionary acts. So,

illocutionary acts is one of part in speech acts that cannot be separated in

communication.

In communication illocutionary acts not only happens in oral

communication in real life, but also in written like in magazine, newspaper

literature. According to Webster‟s third new international dictionary as

citied in Zumaroh (2012: 22) movie is defined as a motion picture

considered especially as a source of entertainment or as an art form. In the

movie utterances that are spoken by the speakers can be analyzed as a

study of illocutionary acts because in their utterance may be contains

certain meaning.

There are many movies which have dialogues as real as daily

conversations. One of them is the movie entitled Zootopia. The movies

itself tells about one country that name is Zootopia and the community are

animals. What kind of animals they acts like humans activity or daily life

although they all have different character and understanding, they

tolerance one each other. The main character in this movie is rabbit that

struggle to be a policeman for rightness in his country namely is Judi

Hopes and whatever restriction he past for be a good policeman.

B. Statement of Research Problems

In this research the writer would like to focus on illocutionary acts

as expressed in the utterances spoken by Judi Hopes as main character in

Zootopia movie. Based on the background, these are the problems:

1. What types of illocutionary acts are found in the movie script of

Zootopia?

2. What illocutionary forces are used in each of the types of illocutionary

acts found?”
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C. Objective of the Research

Based on the problems above, the aims of the study are as follows:

1. To recognize the types of the illocutionary acts types found in the

movie of Zootopia.

2. To recognize the illocutionary forces in the movie of the Zootopia

uttered by the main character.

D. Significance of the Research

This study is significant to enrich the understanding about

pragmatics, especially about illocutionary act through literary work such as

movie. By watching literary work and analyzing the illocution that used in

the dialogue, we can understand about it and how to apply it in our daily

life appropriately.

Moreover, the writer hopes this study will give contribution for:

1. English learners

Knowing the illocutionary the English learners improve their

ability in speaking. This study will lead the learners to speak appropriate

on the context and make the hearer understand. So, they can build a good

social relationship.
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2. English teacher

One of contribution for English teachers is that they can motivate

the students in using illocution performed especially in the speaking class.

In addition, the teachers will know the use of illocution that related to the

context, which, in turn, it can be helpful for students in their speaking.

3. Other researchers

Knowing speech acts above is still not enough extensively to

understand the pragmatics itself. It is expected that they will conduct a

research about politeness principle by using other theories in pragmatics

so they can understand politeness in various point of view based on the

theory and the study of pragmatics will be developed.

E. Scope and Limitation of the Research

This study is limited to analyze the illocution in the dialogue of the

movie “Zootopia”. The writer limits the study on dialogues of the main

character in the movie.

F. Definition of Key terms

In order to give clear definition and as guidance for the readers to

understand the whole study, the definition of the key terms are given here.
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1. Speech act

Speech acts the study of how we do thing with utterances.

Speech act therefore was is very important event in the study of

pragmatics, since the speech means an action.

2. Illocutionary act

Illocutionary act is called by the act of doing something. It

is not only used for informing something, but also doing something as

far as speech event was accurate considered.

3. Context

Context is background knowledge assumed to be shared by

speaker and hearer and which contributes to hearer‟s interpretation of

what speaker means by given utterance. Context affects language

aptitude.