Directive speech act of character T’challa in Black Panther movie

Abstract

Background: This research studies about directive speech acts made by the main character T’Challa in Black Panther movie.

Purpose: The aims of this study are to explicate the applications of the directive speech act, to explain the types of directive speech act of the utterances that used, and to find out the most frequent types of directive speech act of the utterances that used by the main character T’Challa in Black Panther movie.

Design and methods: To achieve the aims of the study, the writer uses Kreidler’s theory in analyzing the data. This study is a qualitative research by employing descriptive method which the writer interprets of utterances that contain the types of directive speech acts in this movie.

Results: The result of study showed that 39 utterances of directive of speech acts were successfully identified that made by the main character T’Challa. In this study, the writer found that the main character T’Challa in this movie uses all the types of directive speech act, such as, command, request, and suggestion. There are command 26 data or 66,6%, request 8 data or 20,5%, and suggestion 5 data or 12,9%. So it can be concluded that the dominant directive is command, because this movie contained many command of the main character T’Challa as the king in the movie who has highest authority and also has a degree of control the other characters. Command is to give the strong order, request to ask the hearer to do or refrain from doing something, and suggestion is to give the opinion to the hearer.