Illocutionary Acts Feasibility as a Source for Teaching Expressing of Asking for Senior High School

Abstract

In communication, we need an illocutionary act role to avoid mistakes in using language with the context. Illocutionary act explains that communication is not the only language but also with action. This research discusses the main character of Christopher Robin movie script. This study aims to find the types of illocutionary acts and feasibility as a source for teaching English in senior high school. The researcher took the basis of the data from the internet. The descriptive qualitative research was methodology research used in the study. Theory of J.Searle is used to analyze the main character of Christopher Robin movie script. Searle's classification of illocutionary is divided into five categories: representative, directive, commissive, declarative, and expressive. The result shows that the most dominant from the utterance in the movie script is 45 data representative. The directive is 37 utterances, and the expressive was found 17 data. Meanwhile, the commissive data was found 8, and the declarative is found 3 data. The illocutionary acts are feasible to be used to teach asking material at senior high school 11^th grade. The analysis of the illocutionary acts is appropriate with the material in the curriculum 2013 syllabus. The research can help in teaching the asking material. In this case, it is suitable with previous research