Mianawati, Ratih Santi (2013) A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS TO REVEAL NINETEEN SIXTIES AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S OBSTACLES IN TATE TAYLOR’S THE HELP. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The objectives of the research are (1) to identify the types of speech acts in terms of locutionary acts, illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts found in the three African American women characters and two white women characters’ utterances in Tate Taylor’s The Help and (2) to describe African American women’s obstacles in 1960s through the speech acts of the three African American women characters and two white women characters portrayed in the film. This research employed the descriptive qualitative method. The data were in the form of scenes and each scene has a dialogue and context. The source of the data is The Help directed by Tate Taylor and its script. The data were collected by watching the film, reading and checking the script, selecting the data, and recording them into the data sheet. Some steps in analyzing the data were identifying the speech acts, classifying the speech acts based on Austin’s and Searle’s theories, classifying the obstacles faced by the African American women characters based on the speech acts which potentially portrayed the obstacles, applying the data trustworthiness, analyzing the data, and drawing conclusions. The research reveals two findings. The first is that all the three types of speech acts are found in the characters’ utterances. They are locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts. In terms of locutionary acts, the characters employ the phatic acts which deal with grammar, phonological, and syntactic analysis of utterance, phonetic acts which deal with certain sounds or noises, and rhetic acts which are related to the use of sense and reference. In terms of illocutionary acts, the five types of the acts are all found in the characters’ utterances. They are representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declaration. In terms of perlocutionary acts, the twelve effects are all found in the characters’ utterances and/or facial expressions. The second findings are the obstacles faced by the African American women characters which can be found in the use of the characters’ speech acts. The obstacles faced by the African American women characters who live in Mississippi, one of the regions in the United States of America, are economic issue, educational issue, racial discrimination, racial segregation, family disruption, and political issue.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | speech acts, African American women’s obstacles, Tate Taylor’s The Help |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2015 01:49 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 23:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/21180 |
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