Perlocutionary Acts in "The Good Dinosaur" Movie

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze the types and meanings of perlocutionary acts contained in the movie "The Good Dinosaur". Descriptive qualitative methods are used in this study because the data analyzed are in the form of speech or words so that they do not require processing in the form of statistics or numbers. The research data sources come from dialogues and communication actions displayed by the characters in the movie. Data were collected through documentation techniques by watching the movie, reviewing the script, and identifying and recording utterances containing perlocutionary acts based on Qiang's theory (2013). Continued with analysis techniques through a selection process, classification into four types of perlocutionary acts, descriptive presentation, and interpretation of meaning to produce research conclusions. The results obtained in this study found 27 perlocutionary acts, including 20 verbal sentences and 7 nonverbal sentences. Based on the analysis, there are 12 utterances for type 1 perlocutionary acts, 2 utterances for type 2 perlocutionary acts, 12 utterances for type 3 perlocutionary acts, and 1 utterance for type 4 perlocutionary acts, while in this also showing that the meaning of speech is greatly influenced by how the listener interprets the message in a particular context.