Illocutionary Act in Ice Age Collision Course Movie Script

Abstract

Language is very important for human being, because through language we can convey messages, information, communicate ideas and opinions. Language is also used in every aspect of life because human is a social creature who need interaction with the other in orde`r to carry out daily activities to get the meaning especially speech act by using the classification of illocutionary act by George Yule. This research aims to analyze the utterance in the dialogue of the Ice Age Collision Course movie script by using pragmatic study to understanding meaning in relation to speech situations or social contexts and comprehend meaning through language. This research applies qualitative content analysis method. The source of the data in this research is primary data. The technique of data collections are downloading the script, read the movie script intensively, clasifying the data, and data reduction. While the techniques of data analysis are presenting the data, describing each data, interpreting the data and concluding. The result shows there are 10 data with five types illocutionary acts expressed by all the characters such as Directives, Representatives, Commisive, Expressive and Declarations act.