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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, I would like to thank and give praise to Allah SWT for the blessings and

graces to me till the day which I can finish this thesis. Forward, peace and blessings are upon

to our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW. Furthermore, I am solicitous to my parents who

always believe in me and support me in ups and down. Then also, I would to show my

appreciation and enormous to my brothers and all my family members who always give

solution in order to make this thesis even better.

In addition, I want give my gratitude for the intellectual and moral support to all the

following people who are important in my life.

1. I gratefully thank to the head of english department Diana Citra Hasan,

M.Hum.,M.Ed,. Ph.D and secretary of english departement Al Azwad Fauzan, S.

S M. Pd who have helped and provided motivation, direction, and ideas that can

facilitate the writer to completing this thesis.

2. My advisors, Temmy Thamrin, SS., M.Hum. Ph.D and Diana Citra Hasan,

M.Hum.,M.Ed,. Ph.D I would like to express gratitude entirely to them for sharing

knowledge. I want to thank them for their guidance and support. They give their

appreciation and willingness in reading my thesis, discussing and giving me some

feedback on both suggestions and useful critiques in order to become a great

thesis. I realize that I am fortunate to be under of their supervisor for their

responsibility to guide my research.

3. I would like to thank the examiners, Dra. Nova Rina, M.Hum. and Al Azwad

Fauzan, S. S M. Pd for evaluating and giving me some suggestions so that thesis

become preferable.

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4. To all my beloved friends, among others are Abdul Rafi Sultani, A md. K3, Fani

Anggi Andriani, A md. Kes., Siti Annurun Anggi Yance, Rizki Wahfid Alma’ruf,.

I would like to thank them greatly for always accompanying me in ups and down,

giving me support, helping me to comprehend the theory and the data of this

thesis.

5. Last, I want to thank to all my friends from English Literature ’15, all my juniors

that has supported me and English Student Association. Thank you so much for

being my friend and motivating me in order to get advantageous knowledge and

experience.

Padang, 17 Juli 2019

Ranti Kurnia Sari Reinier

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 AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACT IN THE CRAZY RICH ASIAN

MOVIE BY JON M. CHU

Ranti Kurnia Sari Reinier1, Temmy Thamrin2, Diana Chitra Hasan2

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Student of English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bung Hatta University

Email : rantikurniaa@gmail.com

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Lecturer of English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bung Hatta University

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ABSTRACT

This study analyzes the directive speech acts in the Crazy Rich Asian movie. The
purpose of this research is to find out the type of directive speech act and the form of
directive speech act. The researcher took data from the movie entitled Crazy Rich Asian. This
research is qualitative research using descriptive methods. The research data is taken from
directive speech acts in conversations between characters in the movie. The instrument of this
research is that researchers collect data, analyze, and present data on research findings and
then draw conclusions from the results obtained.The result of research indicates fifty data of
directive spech act. The analysis shows three types of directive speech acts uttered in Crazy
Rich Asian movie. There are 35 data belong to command, 5 data belong to request, and 10
data belong to suggestion. The form of directive speech acts in Crazy Rich Asian movie
are imperative, interrogative, and declarative. There are imperative 46 data, they are 34 data
imperative used in command, 2 in requests, 10 in suggestion. Interrogative 3 data used
in request. Then declarative 1 data used in command. Directive speech act in command was
dominant and the characters often used imperative to get the hearer to do something action.

Keyword: speech acts, directive speech act, movie

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................. i

ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................ iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................... iv

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study ....................................................................................... 1

1.2 Identification of the Problem ................................................................................. 4
1.3 Limitation of the Problem ...................................................................................... 5
1.4 Formulation of the Problem ................................................................................... 5
1.5 Purpose of the Research ......................................................................................... 5
1.6 Significance of the Research .................................................................................. 5

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 Review of Related Literature ................................................................................. 7

2.1.1 Speech Act ................................................................................................... 7

2.1.2 Previous Studies..........................................................................................10

2.2 Synopsis of the Film..............................................................................................11

2.3 Theoretical Framework.........................................................................................12

2.3.1 Directive Speech Acts................................................................................12

2.3.1.1 Types of Directive Speech Acts.........................................................12

2.3.1.1.1 Speech Act of Requesting...........................................................12

2.3.1.1.2 Speech Act of Commanding.......................................................13

2.3.1.1.3 Speech Act of Suggesting...........................................................13

2.3.1.1.4 Speech Act of Asking.................................................................13

2.3.2 The Form of Directive Speech Act............................................................14

2.3.3 Context of Situations..................................................................................14

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CHAPTER III METHODS OF THE RESEARCH

3.1 Source of Data......................................................................................................18

3.2 Technique of Collecting Data..............................................................................18

3.3 Technique of Analyzing Data...............................................................................21

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 Data Description and Analysis.............................................................................23

4.1.1 The Analysis od Directive Speech Act in the Crazy Rich Asian Movie...28

4.1.1.1 Commanding.................................................................................23

4.1.1.2 Requesting.....................................................................................32

4.1.1.3 Suggestion.....................................................................................35

4.2 Findings and Discussions.....................................................................................40

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusions..........................................................................................................42

5.2 Suggestions..........................................................................................................43

BIBLIOGRAPHY...............................................................................................................45

APPENDICES

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the Research

Speech act is not only as part of communication but also as part of social interaction.

Speech acts are one of the activities that are for humans as beings who speak. Yule (1996:47-

53) explains that speech act is an action performed via utterance. In speaking activities,

speakers do not just convey messages, but they also build social relationships with speakers.

Speech acts more consent on the meaning or meaning of actions in his speech. The phrase

"Can you open the door?" Can have various meanings in different situations. It may be that

the speaker only asks the listener, or asks another person to open the door. Therefore, an

understanding of speech acts is needed in communication because humans will often be faced

with the need to understand and use various types of speech acts. Speaker needs to choose

speaking strategy to deliver the message appropriately can build social relationships. In other

words, the speaker is not from opening his mouth in talking but he must first think about the

speech he will speak. People use it to share their opinions or express feelings to their

listeners. They can express in various ways, it can be directly or indirectly.

In everyday life we often have conversations with people around us such as parents,

friends or girlfriends. Conversation contents can be suggestions, questions, or requests. This

happens in everyday communication,where communication is a very important need in

human life, we can see communication can occur at every human step.In communication

there are two ways to convey ideas, there are written language and spoken language. Both

contain utterances. Every element involved in the communication process, whether

communicator, media, message, or communicant must play its role appropriately to create a

conducive climate so that the communication process reaches its goal. There are many ways

that can help people to create a good communication. One of them is by using directive.

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Directive speech act, Yule (1996:93) explain that the directive speech act is a speech act

which is used by speakers to get someone else to do something. The hearer does what the

speaker wants. Through directive speech act, has several purposes requesting, asking,

commanding, suggesting, ordering, questioning, seeking confirmation, seeking information,

how-to-instruction. Directive speech acts can be found in various media such as magazines,

films, newspapers, books, etc.

In this research, the researcher studies about directive speech act that found in the

“Crazy Rich Asian” movie. Crazy Rich Asian movie is the latest romance comedy film in

2018 directed by a famous director, Jon M. Chu. and script writer Kevin Kwan with Adele

Lim. The story is an adaptation of the novel by Kevin Kwan. There are some reasons why

this research studies about directive speech act. The first, directive is a kind of speech act that

often used by speaker in daily conversation. Through directive speech acts the speaker

utterances make hearer do something. Second, directive show a strong relationship between

speaker and hearer. Directive occurs in spoken and written language. The last reason is

because directive speech acts are used to get greatest attention from listener in

communication. In conversation, directive is often used by speaker but they say in different

way. The speaker has to concern about situation and context to make the hearer do as they

want.

Speech acts can be found not only in real life situation but also in movie. Many

people like watching the movie, but not all of them understand the every utterance’s meaning

which speaker said in dialogue in the movie. Movie is a communicationmedium that is audio

visual to convey a message to a group of people who gather in a particular place. There are

three reasons why Crazy Rich Asian Movie as a source of data in this research. First, this is an

authentic data because it is written by English. This is one example of the directive act can be

seen in the following conversation between the owner of the hotel and the manager:

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01/C/IMP/M02:44/The Owner of the Hotel

The owner of the hotel : Get the Lancaster Suite ready. Now
Manager : (shocked) surely you’re joking, sir.
The owner of the hotel : I assure you, I’m not.as of this evening...

From the picture above, there is an owner of the hotel who speak to the Manager of the hotel.

He told his members to prepare a suite room for Mrs. Eleanor Young because she would

become the owner of the hotel. That's why he said "Get the Lancaster Suite, Now". This is

a directive act because it shows that speaker tries to get the hearer to do something. This

utterance is in an imperative form, the owner is in higher status than the manager. Then, the

utterance is command.

The second isthe movie is the implement of human’s life, take the important

part to each person and can give the significant impacts to the people. They can get many

good messages based of the movie that they watched. Moreover, these movies contain of

many moral values, because they are kind of movie that show us how the social class

influence society. It is also important to English Language Study Program students in

watching movie. Movie is one of the subject elections which the students should be taken.

Last, it is very interesting to analyze the directive speech acts in this movie, because it is Box

Office movie which has many directive act utterance. The character in this movie are come

from two different social class, the first come from very rich family in Singapore and the

second one only an immigrant of Chinese in America. But, both of them are Chinese.

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 To make this study different from previous studies, the researcher found the findings

in this analysis. Each region has its own language style, even differences in social class also

affect people’s speaking style. The language used by people of high social class is different

from people of low social class. For example, based on data analyzed by people with low

social class, they often use requests while people with high social class tend to use command

when they speak. It is shown from the detail analysis of the data and social contect which

support each explanation.

Based on the description above, this research analyze the directisve speech acts that

used by the character in this movie, what are the dominant types and form of directive speech

acts.

1.2 Identification Problem

There are some problem that are found when the writer tries to analyze the movie.

The problem identified from this study is the speech act. In this case, speech acts can be

learned through different perspectives, they are declaration, representative, expressive,

commisive, and directive. And in the directive speech act discusses how speech acts are used

to make listeners do something. Based on the explanation above, the researcher focused on

directive act analysis to find out how they were used in this film.

1.3 Limitation of the Problem

There are many categories of speech acts. But for this study, researcher will focus on

the nine criteria of the directive speech act. This research is limited to discuss directive

speech act in the movie through the utterances spoken by the characters in the Crazy Rich

Asian movie.

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1.4 Research Questions :

Based on the explanation above, the following questions are created to match the

study problems :

1. What are the types of Directive Speech Act found in the Crazy Rich Asian movie?

2. What forms of Directive Speech Act found in the Crazy Rich Asian movie?

1.5 The Purpose of the Research

The purpose of the research are:

1. To know the types of directive speech act in the Crazy Rich Asian movie.

2. To find out the form of directive speech acts found in the Crazy Rich Asian movie

1.6 Significance of the Research

The significance of this study provides benefits for linguistic studies to increase

knowledge especially in the study of pragmatics and the use of language in everyday

conversation using directive speech acts. The author hopes that this research can also be used

as a reference for analyzing other speech acts.

The researcher hopes that this research will give some significance as follow:

1) Theoritical significance

Based on the research objectives, the results of this study are expected

to provide many benefits for anyone who wants to study English literature.

Therefore, the results of this study provide more explanation of pracmatic

knowledge.

2) Practical significance :

a. For researcher, this research is able to increase the ability of researchers to

understand linguistics, especially in pragmatics.

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b. For reader, the results of this study can be used as a reference to study speech

acts and increase knowledge about pracmatics

c. For other researcher, the result of this study can be used as reference to study

speech acts.

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 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE AND

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 Review of the Related Literature

In this chapter, the writer discusses some literature and cites several definitions from

linguists as the basic requirements relating to this subject matter. This research approach is

pragmatic because the topic of this research is directive speech act which is one branch of

pragmatics.

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that studies the relationship between context

outside language and speech. The outer context of language is an element outside speech that

influences the intention of speech. The purpose can not be seen only from the form and

meaning, but also from the place and time of speaking, who is involved, the purpose, the

form of speech, the way of delivery, speaking tools, norms, and genre. The meaning of

language can be understood if the context is known. Pragmatic constraints are the rules of

language usage regarding the form and meaning associated with the speaker's intent, context,

and circumstances.

According to Levinson (1983) pragmatics as the study of form a functional

perspective that is, that it attempts to explain face of linguitic structure by references to non

linguistics pressure and causes.So pragmatics is the science of language that studies the use

of language that is associated with the context and situation of its use.

2.1.1 Speech Act

Speech act are the basic units of communication in which utterances or spates of

discourse are viewed as social acts that fulfill social function. It is really often found in daily

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communication. In relation, people communication each other in daily communication. The

speech act theory is a reputable pragmatic concept that has imbued with research since its

first appearance in 1962 until now. The historical tracers of this theory state that it has first

engendered by Wittgenstein, the German philosopher, but has given some linguistic tint by

Austin and Searle (1962).

According to Yule (1996) speech act is an action which performs through a utterance

are generally called speech acts, in English are commonly given more specific labels such as

apology, complaint,invtaton, promise, or request. Yule (1996) explain the three aspects of

speech act, they are :

1) Locutionary Acts

In linguistics and the philosophy of mind, a locutionary act is the performance

of an utterance, and hence of a speech act. The term equally refers to the surface

meaning of an utterance because, according to J. L. Austin's posthumous "How To Do

Things With Words", a speech act should be analysed as a locutionary act. It is an

assertion, the speaker is putting into words her observation of an ongoing event,

which she claims to be true.

2) Illocutionary Acts

The speech act of that utterance; what it is intended to do. It is conventional

social acts recognized as such by both speaker and hearer. They happen in uttering

something.

3) Perlocutionary Acts

The consequential effect brought about by virtue of the speech act; the change

brought about through he utterance of speech act. They refer to the effects of the

utterance on the listener, that is, the change in the mind or behavior of the listener

because of producing locutions and illocutions.

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 While, Searle (1976) propose his classification of illocutionary acts which have five

categories of speech act, they are :

1. Representatives

Representatives is the commit the speaker to something being case to the truth of

proposition. This illocutionary is refers to the facts. The forms of the representatives:

asserting, reporting, informing, claiming and fact stating.

(1) Example: the Indonesian capital city is Jakarta.

2. Directives

It is involve attempts by a speaker to get a hearer to do something. The forms of the

directives: requesting, suggesting, commanding, asking, ordering, questioning, seeking

information, and seeking confirmation.

(2) Example: can you open the door for me?

3. Commissives

The illocutionary act that commit the speaker to some future course of action. The forms

of commissives: promising, vowing, swearing, threatening, pledging, and offering.

(3) Example: I will call you tomorrow.

4. Expressives

It is express the speakers psychological or emotional state that related to the speaker

feelings. The forms of expressives: apologizing, welcoming, congratulating, thanking,

greeting, and praizing.

(4) Example: I am sorry your birthday present is late.

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 5. Declarations

Result in the immediate change of a circumstance or official state of affairs. The forms of

declarations consist of: resigning, hiring, declaring war, appointing, christening, ordaining,

and establishing an official role.

(5) Example: I fired you from this company.

2.1.2 Previous Studies

The research of the directive speech act has been analyzed by the previous

researchers; one of them is Laily (2017) she analyzed types of directive speech acts

performed by the main character “Thomas” and the character’ responses in the Maze Runner

movie. In her research, she analyzed types of directive used by character in movie and she

identified the utterances to find drective speech act used by characters.

Keylli (2013) analyzed the speech act directive in the movie “Sleeping Beauty”. The

researcher analyzes the directive speech act through the DVD as the data. It will find out how

often the directive speech act performed and which type of directive speech act that are most

frequently used in the movie. This study used qualitative method in which data collection is

done by watching the movie, analyzing the body movement and the dialogues of each

character, reading the script and library research.

Dontcheva (2005), her research is about directive speech act which is useful for

diplomatic speech. This is concerned with the language used in regulative institutional speech

acts in the field of diplomatic discourse. The central object of study is the performative

speech act in UNESCO resolutions with a particular view to relating the semantic analysis of

directive and expressive speech act verbs to politeness strategies.

Another research is Yanti (2015) she analyzed speech act of directive and expressive

found in Jokowi’s speech. In her research she analyzed the types of directive and expressive

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act. She found types of directive speech act, they are : inviting, suggesting, requesting,

forbidding. And she also found types of expressive act such as, thanking, praising. Then she

describe the strategy in speech act.

In conclusion, the above research has a difference with this study. In this case the

writer chooses the topic of directive speech acts that focus on the analysis of the types of

directive speech acts like those found in the film Crazy Rich Asia. And also the authors found

the discovery that social class can also distinguish a person's speaking style in delivering his

speech. That makes this research different from the previous research described in the

previous paragraph above.

2.2. Synopsis of the Film

Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is an economics professor at a university in New York

who is giving economic lessons to students by playing poker. After that, Rachel is followed

by Nick (now played by Henry Golding), her boyfriend, for lunch together. Nick told Rachel

that he wanted to take her to his hometown in Singapore for his best friend's marriage, Colin

Khoo (Chris Pang) and to introduce Rachel to his family.

Rachel and her mother Kerry (Tan Kheng Hua), looking for clothes to go to

Singapore and they discussed about Nick's family.However, during this time Rachel Chu did

not realize that her boyfriend was a wealthy person in Asia who was the target of many

women. Everything starts to get complicated when the mother of her boyfriend (Michelle

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Yeoh) seems to disagree with Rachel's presence. Rachel began to find out and ask for help

from her best friend during college Peik Lin (Awkwafina) who lives in Singapore to find out

who the real family of Nick is and how to deal with them

Eleanor went to a place in the city center to play mahjong because Rachel had invited

her. Rachel told Eleanor that she had been proposed by Nick, but she refused because the

Nick family didn't like her.

Rachel and her mother prepare to go back to New York, suddenly Nick appears on the

plane and tries to talk to Rachel. He explained what his purpose and purpose was, he did not

care about his family because he loved Rachel and wanted to be happy with her. Nick

proposed again on the plane, but this time with Eleanor's ring, watched by all plane

passengers. Rachel accepted it. And everyone cheered when Rachel and Nick kissed.

2.3 Theoretical Framework

2.3.1. Directive Speech Acts

Directive is kind of speech act that the speaker tries to get the hearer to do something.

According to Searle (1976) directives are the class of speech acts that attempts to fit the

world to the words. They are attemps by a speaker to get a hearer to do something such as :

command, advice, ask, request, and many others.

2.3.1.1 Types of Directive Speech Acts

In this point, the writer will describe cirteria of directive speech act, requesting,

commanding, suggesting, advising, asking that can be found in the form. Many linguistics

have categorized command, request, and suggestion in the directive speech act such as :

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 2.3.1.1.1 Speech Act of Requesting

Requesting is a condition where other people are in our mind, our thoughts are on other

people. Of course the mind that expects others to be willing to help us. It shows the speaker's

request to the partner so that the partner does an action. This action indirectly expects the

partner to do what the speaker wants. Example: Can I borrow your pen? This utterance is a

requesting sentence because the speaker want to the hearer to do something that they want.

2.3.1.1.2 Speech Act of Commanding

Commanding act contains the understanding that in saying the speech the speaker wants

the spoken partner to do an act. In uttering a speech, the speaker feels that he has a strong

reason in his speech so that the speech partner is affected to do so. Example: I told you to be

quiet. From the example, we know that the speaker tried to command the hearers to do some

act (be quite) by said “ I told you” it has the meaning that the speaker wants the hearers to do

what they want.

2.3.1.1.3 Speech Act of Suggestion

It can be interpreted that in saying a speech, the speaker intends to suggest the speech

partner to take action. Speakers give confidence to the partner to take action. The actions

taken by the partner are a good and useful thing for the speech partner. Example: You should

pay more attention to your health. This utterance means that the speaker give an advice to the

hearers, they want the hearers take more attention to their health.

2.3.1.1.4 Speech Act of Asking

Asking is a verbal greeting asking for a response from someone who is known. The

response given can be in the form of knowledge up to the things that are the result of

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consideration. It can be interpreted that in saying something, the speaker asks the partner to

say about the truth or untruth of a proposition. For example:

R : Can I borrow your pen?

RK : yes

The speaker want the hearer to give him/her a pen because he need to make some note

or others. This is the types of directive act because the speaker want the hearer to do want

they want that is give the pen.

2.2.2 The Form of Directive Speech Act

There is a lot definition about the form of directive speech act, but to complete this

research the researcher choose the form theory by Yule (1996: 54):

a. Imperative

Imperative is one of directive forms. It is a sentence or an utterance used to

give command, state polite request by giving direction. In request it is usually

stated by the word.

Basically, the imperative forms of directive sentence usually occur in daily life in

conversation between superior to his subordinate and between participants who have close

relationship.

Ex : Mrs. Eleanor : Do get a mop. The floor's wet.

Manager : Get a mop!

Receptionist : I'm all in.

Based on example above, it show the form of imperative which is using exclamation

mark “Get a mop!”.

b. Interrogative

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 The form of interrogative is important to used in the daily communication

because the hearer will be interested to respond and gives respect to the

speaker from the hearer. To asking a question in sentences it used

interrogative sentence.

Ex: Rachel Chu :Can we have one more of these? Thank you
Waiter : yaa

Based on example above, it show speech act of asking refers to interrogative sentence.

It could be seen by the question mark in the end of the utterances.

c. Declarative

Declarative sentence is the last type of the directive utterance, it is a sentence

that is used to make statement. Declarative can be uttered between intimate or

distant participants and formal or informal situation. The utterances of

directive types is clearly show the desire of the speaker that they want to tell

or declare.

2.2.3 Context of Situation

Context has many uses in spoken and written language. Useful to help

speakers and listeners or researchers and readers read and easily understand the

meaning of speech. Context of situation is the situation with which the text is uttered.

Hymes (1974) states that, “the starting point is the etnographic analysis of the

communication conduct of a community” (p.9). communication conduct is what

people when they communicate with each other. He set out to show that researchers

could use his methods to study ths communiation (talk) systematically.

Hymes in Wardhaugh (1998: 242-244) states that there is a speech component

that to looking for by ethnographers. Hymes suggest that there are certain components

of speech and place them in eight groups called SPEAKING which means:

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a) Situation

Situation includes both the scene and the setting. This is whre the

activities are talking place and the verall scene in which they are a part.

b) Participants

It refers to the participants involved. It is alo included the people

present and roles the play, or the relationships they have with other

participants.

c) Ends

It refers to the end or purpose of the conversation between the speaker

and the listener.

d) Acts sequence

Act sequence refers to the actual form and content of what is said: the

precise words used, how they are used, and the relationship of what is said to

the actual topic at the hand.

e) Key

Utterance keys can refer to speech tones, ways of speaking, and

feelings when the speech takes place. Hymes (1974) adds that key also refers

to the feeling, atmosphere, and attitude. Manner, feeling, and attitude are

used in reference to the situation.

f) Instrumentality

It refers to channels or tools. For example oral, written or telegraph.

The tools or channels used in the speech process have a profound effect on the

purpose of speech.

g) Norms

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 The norm of interaction and interpretation designates the rules in

interacting and understanding speech. In other words, the meaning of the norm

here is a social rule that regulates events and actions and reactions of

participants. And it refers to a set of non-linguistic rules that govern when,

how, and how often speech occurs that are usually owned by all communities

and vary from one culture to another.

h) Genre

Genre refers to the type of speech, variety of utterances, or may also be

appropriately referred to as the narrative. It also refers to the type of speech

that is clearly limited; things like poetry, proverbs, puzzles, sermons, prayers,

lectures, and editorials.

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METHODS OF THE RESEARCH

In this research, the writer use qualitative research. Qualitative research is called a

research method that focuses on obtaining data through open communication and

conversation. In this study, the author will use a pragmatic and discourse approach. The

following is related to qualitative research.

3.1 Source of the Data

The source of data in this research is the Crazy Rich Asian movie, the film was

released in 2018 directed by Jon M.Chu and script writer Kevin Kwan with Adele Lim. The

data were taken from download the movie and the script from internet. The duration of the

movie is about 120 minute. There are some considerations as to why the film "Crazy Rich

Asian" was taken as a source of data in this study because the film tells the story of the

romantic comedy genre, where the film uses many directive speech acts such as asking,

suggesting, ordering and others.

3.2 Technique of Collecting the Data

In this research the writer observes all of utterances or dialogue which is consist of

directive speech act. Steps Collecting the data:

1. The researcher watched and replayed the movie entitled Crazy

RichAsian several times in order to understand the whole story.

2. Finds the script of the movie from the internet

(https://d2bu9v0mnky9ur.cloudfront.net/academy2018/cra/scre

enplay/cra_wbfomat.pdf)

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3. Determined the parts of the dialogue that presented the use of

directive speech acts (command, request, suggesting and

warning)

4. Transcribed the dialogue that presented use of directive speech

acts (imperative, interrogative, declarative).

5. Giving codes to each datum in order to be easy in analyzing the

data. The coding of the form of directive speech acts as

follows:

01/C/IMP/M02:44/The Owner of the Hotel

The explanation of the data mentioned above is:

a. The use Arabic number to number data 01 means

that the data are number 01.

b. The use of abbreviation with Roman words in

capital characters in bracket to show the kinds of

directive speech acts. The abbreviation is as follows:

(C) Command

(R) Request

(S) Suggestion

c. The use of abbreviation with Roman words in

capital characters to show the form of directive

speech acts. The abbreviation is as follow:

a) IMP is Imperative

b) INT is Interrogative

c) DEC is Declarative

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 d. The use of abbreviation with Roman words in

capital character and use Arabic number to show the

time of directive speech acts and form of directive

speech acts appears

e. To relate data to the social class the data are

categorized into the follwing :

(1) : High social class

(2) : Low social class

f. The use of the name of the character is to show the

performer of the directive speech acts. For instance,

01/C/IMP/M02:44/The Owner of the Hotel means

that it is the datum number 01 that contain

command and contains of imperative in the

02:44 minutes from the film Crazy Rich Asian

movie and the owner of the hotel is the performer of

directive speech acts.

It is seen from the following table 1:

Table 1. Form and types of Directive Speech Act

DN Seco TDS FDS H/ S Dialogue Picture of Movie

nd L
01. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) The The owner of the hotel :
2:44 own Get the Lancaster Suite
er ready. Now
of Manager : (shocked)
the surely you’re joking, sir.
hote The owner of the hotel : I
l assure you, I’m not.as of
this evening...

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 02. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) Mr Mrs. Eleanor Yong : Do
3:22 s. get a mop. The floor’s
Ela wet.
nor Manager : (tell to the
Yo receptionist to take a mop)
ung
03. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) Ma Mrs. Elanor Young : (enter
2:29 nag the hotel)
er Manager : Mrs. Young, I
of must ask you to leave or
hot I’ll have to cal the police.
el Mrs. Elanor young :
please, go right ahead
04. 00:1 (C) IMP (2) Ra Rachel’s mom : you’ve
0:43 che always wanted to go to
l Asia. And who knows, if
Ch all goes well in Singapore,
u you might just come back
with a souvenir.
Rachel Chu : Oh, Mom,
Stop!

By using table 1, the writer is able easily to analyze the data which have been

classified. And also the data is not difficult to be searched in the script. Completely the data

will put in the appendixes.

3.3 Technique of Analyzing the Data

The writer use qualitative research method to analyze the data. Qualitative research is a

type of social science research that collects and works with non-numerical data and seeks to

interpret the meaning of this data so that it can help us understand social life through the

study of populations or targeted places. In analyzing the data, writer uses theory by Searle

(1976). For example:

1) Nick Young : Can I have a tissue please?

Oliver : (Give the tissue)

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 From the example above, it can be seen the utterance of “Can I have a tissue please?” is

one of criteria of directive speech act. This utterance is imperative and is used by Nick who

has the status of a high class social person.It is form of request speech act, there is an

accidental incident. When Rachel Chu and Nick Young are talking, Rachel accidentally spills

her drink into a Nick’s coat. Then, Nick immediately asked Oliver for a tissue. This

expression belongs to directive act because Nick wants Oliver to do something for him to

give him a tissue.

This directive speech act as the words that have function to make the hearer do

something. From this sample clasified as kind of directive speech that is requesting. The

expression of “Can I have a tissue please?” means what speaker says and through language

someone can express his or her feeling and emotion.Creates the sentence belong to request.

This one of example of the analysis made by writer. This research focused on the types

and forms of directive speech act in movie Crazy Rich Asian. Findings and discussions will

be discussed in chapter IV. Drawing conclusion from the data analysis and giving suggestion

2) Rachel’s mom : before we go, I think you should go and talk to him.
Rachel : huuh (exhale)

From this picture, there are a mother of Rachel as a speaker and Rachel as a hearer.

She give a suggestion to Rachel that useful for her future. The setting of this utterance is in

the bed. The genre is informal conversation that occurs in mother and her daughter.

This utterance is a directive act that is suggestion sentence because it contains the

sentence you should it means that the speaker wants the hearer do something good or useful

for themselves. From this data, it is shown that the sugestion is the speaker’s attitude and

intentions when performing an utterance must be taken as a reason for the hearer’s action.

The end of the speech is the hearer do the suggest from the speaker.

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 CHAPTER IV

FINDING AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Data Description and Analysis

This is the chapter where all of the data are processed.The data of this research are the

directive speech acts. There are 50 data of directive speech acts from the sources. The data

are classified, described and analyzed as its types, meaning and context of directive speech

acts in the Crazy Rich Asian movie. Three types are found in this research; command, request

and suggestion.

4.1.1 The Analysis of Directive Acts in the Crazy Rich Asian movie

The classification of types directive that occured in the conversation of the character

in the Crazy Rich Asian movie includes three types, command, request, and suggestion. On

this research, the researcher found 50 data. There are 35 commanding, 5 requesting, and 10

suggestion.

4.1.1.1 Command

Commanding act contains the understanding that in saying the speech the speaker

wants the spoken partner to do an act. In this research, the researcher takes 10 sample of 35

data. The researcher only takes 10 data because it is enough to represent command occuring

in the Crazy Rich Asian movie.

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1. 01/C/IMP/M02:44/The Owner of the Hotel

The owner of the hotel : Get the Lancaster Suite ready. Now
Manager : (shocked) surely you’re joking, sir.
The owner of the hotel : I assure you, I’m not.as of this evening...

From the picture above, there is an owner of the hotel who speak to the Manager of

the hotel. He told to his member to prepare a suite room for Mrs. Eleanor Young because she

would become the owner of the hotel. That's why he said "Get the Lancaster Suite, Now".

This is a directive speech act because it shows that speaker tries to get the hearer to do

something. This utterance is an imperative form because imperative is a sentence or an

utterance used to give command.

The situation of the directive speech act in the utterance above is analyzed by context

of situation. The utterance occurs in the hotel. The participants of the utterance is the owner

of the hotel as a speaker and the hearer is manager of the hotel. They have a close

relationship, and this is formal conversation. The key of this utterance is command. The end

of speech is manager do the command from the owner of the hotel.

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2. 02/C/IMP/M03:22/Mrs. Eleanor Young

Mrs. Eleanor Yong : Do get a mop. The floor’s wet.

Manager : (tell to the receptionist to take a mop)

Based on the picture above, there is Mrs. Eleanor Young is telling the manager to

take the mop. Because of the wet floor so Mrs. Eleanor says to the manager “Do get a mop”.

This is a directive act because it shows that speaker tries to get the hearer to take an action

that is take a mop.

The situation of the directive speech act in the utterance above is analyzed by context

of situation. The utterance above occurs in Private Hotel. The participants are Mrs. Young as

the speaker and the manager of the hotel as the hearer. They both did not know each other,

and the end of the utterance is the manager doing the command that was orderes by Mrs.

Young. The key of the utterance is Command, Mrs. Young command the manager to get a

mop. This is an informal conversation.

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3. 03/C/IMP/M:02:29/Manager of hotel

Mrs. Elanor Young : (enter the hotel)

Manager : Mrs. Young, I must ask you to leave or I’ll have to cal the police.
Mrs. Eleanor young : please, go right ahead

From the picture above, this picture illustrates a heated situation. The manager says

“Mrs. Young, I must ask you to leave” because he was disturbed by Mrs. Young’s arrive at

the hotel. This sentence is related to meaning and context of situation. The participants of this

utterance is Mrs. Eleanor Young as a hearer and the manager as a speaker. They both did not

know each other. The key of this utterance is command. It occurs in the hotel and this is an

informal conversation. The end of the speech is the owner of the hotel came and explained

that Mrs. Eleanor Young would become the owner of the hotel.

The sentence “Mrs. Young, I must ask you to leave” is directive act and it is also a

declarative sentence form. It indicates that the directive acts is to get someone else to act

something as the effect of the speaker’s utterances.

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4. 06/C/IMP/M:15:08/Babysitter

(Children playing the car)

Babysitter : Stop!

Based on the picture above, there are two childrens as a hearer and their babysitter as

a speaker. The speaker telling to the children that their parents will leave, so they have to stop

playing. The utterance occurs in the building and it is an informal conversation because they

have a close relationship. The key of this utterance is command. The end of the utterance is

children do the command from the speaker. Babysitter command children to stop playing.

This is the type of directive speech act that is commanding. The speaker wants the

hearer to take an action that it stop doing what they do. This utterance is an imperative form

because imperative is a sentence or an utterance used to give command and reinforced with

an exclamation mark (!).

5. 13/C/IMP/M01:21:39/Astrid

Michael : you’re always the prettiest, richest, most perfect girl in the room. While I’m
just this lucky bastard who will never measure up.

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 Astrid : don’t say that.
Michael : I know you’re thinking, Astrid.

From the picture above, there are two people that is Astrid as a speaker and her

husband as a hearer. The setting of this conversation is in the car, and the situation of this

picture quite tense. They have a close relationship because they are husband and wife. The

end of this utterance is the hearer try to quite and change their topic. The key of this utterance

is command.

The utterance above is a directive act because the speaker tries to get the hearer to do

something. With the utterance that saying by Astrid “Don’t say that” it means that Astrid tell

to her husband to take an action what Astrid wants.

6. 18/C/IMP/M01:47:06/Astrid

Michael : Hey. I’m gonna send someone for the rest of my stuff. But I wanna talk to
you about my visitation rights with Cassian.
Astrid : stop talking.
Michael : what?
Astrid : don’t worry about packing your things. You bought this apartment. You keep
it. We’re leaving.

From the picture above, there are two participants of conversation that is Astrid as a

speaker and her husband as a hearer. The setting is in the apartment. The genre of this

utterance is informal conversation. The key of this utterance is command. The end of this

speech is the hearer stop talking and do the command from the speaker.

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 This is the directive speech act beacause it is involve attempts by a speaker to get a

hearer to do something. With the utterance “Stop talking” Astrid wants her husband to take

an action that is quite. The genre of this conversation is informal conversation. They have a

close relationship because they are husband and wife.

7. 24/C/IMP/M09:22/Mrs. Eleanor Young

Mrs. Elanor Young : Move on to Corinthians. I’ll catch up.

Her partner : Oh, yes.

Based on the picture above, there are two participants of this conversation that is Mrs.

Eleanor Young as a speaker who has in high social class and her partner as a hearer who has

in low social clas. It is an informal conversation. They have close relationship. This utterance

occurs in Mrs. Eleanor’s house. The end of this utterance is the hearer do the speaker wants.

The utterance above is a directive act because the speaker tries to get the hearer to do

something. With the utterance that saying by Mrs. Eleanor Young “Move on to

Corinthians” it means that Mrs. Eleanor Young tell to her partner to take an action what

speaker wants.

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8. 44/C/IMP/M44:58/Oliver

Nick Young : Can I have a tissue please?

Oliver : (bring the tissue) Go, go. Get changed. I’ll keep Rachel company.
Nick : Thank you, Oli. You’re in good hands. Give me two minutes. I’ll
change.
Based on the picture above, the are two participants of this utterance that is Oliver as

a speaker and Nick Young as a hearer. Oliver tell to Nick Young “Go, go. Get changed” it

means that Oliver wants Nick to do an action that is changed his suit because it’s wet. The

end of this utterance is Nick do what Oliver wants, he went straight to his room and change

his suit. This is informal conversation between Nick and Oliver.

This utterance also an imperative form because imperative is a sentence or an

utterance used to give command. Oliver is a low social class person but he can command

Nick young who is the high social class but with the polite sentence.The situation of the

directive speech act in the utterance above is analyzed by context of situation. The key of this

utterance is command.

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9. 47/C/IMP/M42:21/Eddie

Eddie : yeah, it’s everywhere.

Nick : I’m gonna stop you there because I’m gonna take her on the rounds.
We’ll back, though. No, wait. Hang on.
(Rachel and Nick smile)

From the picture above, it is a comand type in the directive speech act. Because

directive is kind of speech act that the speaker tries to get the hearer to do something. This

utterance occurs in Nick Grandma’s house. There are two participants in this conversation

that is Nick as a hearer and Nick’s cousin as a speaker. The speaker wants the hearer to stay

there because he was not ready to talk.

The situation of the directive speech act in the utterance above is analyzed by context

of situation. The genre of this utterance is informal. The key of this utterance is command,

Nick’s cousin command him to stay.

10. 49/C/IMP/M29:39/Peik Lin’s father

Children : Ah Pa, can we go trampoline?

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 Ah pa : go trampoline? You haven’t finished your nuggets yet, sweetie. Okay,
there’s a lot of children starving in America, right? I mean taktye a look at her ( refers
to Rachel). She’s American, huh? Really skinny. You wanna look like that?
Children : No.
Ah pa : Then eat your nuggets!
(children eat the nuggets)

On the picture above, it is a comand type in the directive speech act. Because

directive is kind of speech act that the speaker tries to get the hearer to do something. This

utterance occurs in Peik Lin’s house. There are two participants in this conversation that is

Peik Lin’s father as a speaker and his daughter as a hearer.

This utterance also an imperative form because imperative is an utterance used to give

command. The situation of the directive speech act in the utterance above is analyzed by

context of situation. The context of situation consist of setting, the participants, the end of

speech act, the key, the norm and the genre. The key of this utterance is command. The

speaker command the hearer to eat he nugget and the end of the utterance is the hearer to the

command of the speaker. This is also an informal conversation.

4.1.1.2 Request
Requesting is a condition where other people are in our mind, our thoughts are on

other people. Of course the mind that expects others to be willing to help us. In this research,

the researcher takes 4 sample of 5 data. The researcher only takes 4 data because it is enough

to represent request occuring in the Crazy Rich Asian movie.

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11. 09/R/INT/M44:56/Nick Young

(Rachel accidentally spills a drink into a Nick’s suit)

Rachel : Oh, my God! So sorry
Nick Young : it’s fine. Don’t worry about it. Can have a tissue please?
Oliver : (give the tissue) Go, go. Get changed.

From the picture above, there is an accidental incident. When Rachel Chu and Nick

Young are talking, Rachel accidentally spills her drink into a Nick’s coat. Then, Nick

immediately asked Oliver for a tissue. This utterance occurs in Nick grandma’s house. It is an

informal conversation. And the participants have a close relationship.

This directive speech act as the words that have function to make the hearer do

something. From this sample clasified as kind of directive speech that is requesting. The

expression of “Can I have a tissue please?” means that the speaker wants the hearer take an

action that is give the tissue. And the end of this utterance is the hearer do the command of

the speaker.

12. 05/R/INT/M1421:/Ass. Producer

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 Ass. Producer : She’s terrible. Can’t we get someone else?
Producer : He’s financing the whole movie. You tell him his girlfriend sucks.

From the picture above, there are the producer and his assistant. The setting of the

utterance is on the set. The utterance “Can’t we get someone else?” means the assistant

producer requested the producer to replace the actress in the film they made. The genre of

this utterance is formal conversation. They both have a close relationship.

This utterance is the directive act because it attemps by the speaker to get the address

to do something. Can’t we get someone else? shows the speaker estimated the hearer to do

what he or she offered. It belong to request which is as one of type of directive act. Request is

an expression of what the speaker wants the hearer to do something depend on the situation.

13. 12/R/INT/M05:25/Rachel Chu

Nick Young : I don’t know what you’re talking about. Cause I have, like a tiny bit.
Rachel Chu : Uh-huh. Okay. Can we have one more of these, please? Thankyou
Based on the picture above, the setting of the utterance is in the cafe. there are Rcahel

Chu and the waiter. Rachel wants to get a new cake. So Rachle as a speaker says “Can we

have one more of these, please?” means she wants the waiters to take an action that is give

her a new cake.

The participants on the picture are Rachel and the waiter. The speaker does not have

close with the hearer. The end of the utterance is the hearer do what the speaker wants. The

genre of this utterance is informal conversation. As a result that is why this type of this

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directive act is request. Request is an expression of what speaker wants the hearer to do

something that speaker want. The word of please shows the request expression.

14. 39/R/IMP/M01:11:03/Ah ma

Ah ma : I can see you more clearly in the day. The shape of your nose is
auspicious. Let me have a look, come closer.. mmm very nice looking.

The participants on the picture are Rachel and Nick’s Ah ma. The speaker does not

have close with the hearer. The end of the utterance is the hearer do what the speaker wants.

The genre of this utterance is informal conversation. The utterance occurs in Nick’s Ah ma

house. This utterance is the directive act because it attemps by the speaker to get the address

to do something. The key of this utterance is request.

4.1.1.3 Suggestion
In this research, the researcher takes 5 sample of 10 data. The researcher only takes 5

data because it is enough to represent suggestion occuring in the Crazy Rich Asian movie.

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15. 37/S/IMP/M01:13:19/Mrs. Eleanor Young

Mrs. Eleanor Young : I know this much. You will never be enough. We should head
back. I wouldn’t want Nick to worry.
(Rachel quiet and back)

Based on picture above, there are Mrs. Young as a speaker and Rachel as a hearer.

The situation of this picture is quite tense and then Mrs. Young says “We should head

back” to Rachel means that she wants Rachel do what she wants that is back to the dining

table gathered with the others.

The word of should creates the suggestion expression. In the suggestion sentence has

a lot of meaning that is for something good or even just reminding and inviting. The purpose

of the suggestion utterance is to get the hearer do what the speaker wants, and in this sentence

the speaker asks for a hearing to do something useful and good for themselves. So when they

make a conversation they need to understand about directive speech act to create a good

communication.

This utterance is occurs in Nick’s Ah ma house. It is an informal conversation. The

key of this utterance is suggestion. The end of the speech is the hearer do the suggest from

the speaker. They both did not close.

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16. 17/S/IMP/M01:39:34/Rachel’s mother

Rachel’s mom : before we go, I think you should go and talk to him.
Rachel : huuh (exhale)

From this picture, there are a mother of Rachel as a speaker and Rachel as a hearer.

She give a suggestion to Rachel that useful for her future. The setting of this utterance is in

the bed. The genre is informal conversation that occurs in mother and her daughter.

This utterance is a directive act that is suggestion sentence because it contains the

sentence you should it means that the speaker wants the hearer do something good or useful

for themselves. From this data, it is shown that the sugestion is the speaker’s attitude and

intentions when performing an utterance must be taken as a reason for the hearer’s action.

The end of the speech is the hearer do the suggest from the speaker.

17. 45/S/IMP/M43:10/Nick’s old nanny

Nick’s old nanny: Nick, is this your girlfriend? You should hurry up and get
married!
Rachel Chu : Ah ma, thank you for inviting me to your home. It is very beautiful.

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 Nick Young : this is Ling Cheh, my old nanny.

From the picture above, there are Nick’s aunty as a speaker and Rachel and Nick as

hearer. The setting of the utterance is in Nick’s grandma house, when Nick introduced Rachel

to his big family. And they get a positive vibes from Nick’s family. Nick’s aunty as a speaker

suggest they to get married as soon as possible. It is a directive act because it attemps by the

speaker to get the hearer to do something. The utterance “You should hurry up and get

married!” is suggestion because it will be a something good for the hearer. This utterance

also includes in the imperative form because it seems to tell and use an exlamation mark (!)

as a confirmation sentence. The key of this utterance is suggestion. The end of this utterance

is they do the positive suggest from the speaker.

18. 40/S/IMP/M01:04:07/Rachel Chu

Rachel : you okay?

Astrid : yeah...
(they meet each other) actually.. No.
Rachel Chu : you could talk to me.
Astrid : Michael is having an affair.

From the picture above, this utterance happened on the beach. There are two

participants that is Rachel as a speaker and Astrid as a hearer. This is an informal

conversation because they have a close relationship. The end of the utterance is that Astrid

tell everything to Rachel. The key of the utterance is Suggestion. The sentence “You could

talk to me” it’s mean that speaker want the hearer to take an action that is tell everything

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what the hearer feel to the speaker. Is a suggestion because it will be a something good for

the hearer. The purpose of the suggestion utterance is to get the hearer do what the speaker

wants, and in this sentence the speaker asks for a hearing to do something useful and good for

themselves.

19. 25/S/IMP/M01:01/Mrs. Eleanor Young

(Nick and Astrid enter the Hotel)

Mrs. Eleanor Young : Be careful, your fingers.
(they stop run and just walking)

Based on the picture above, this utterance occurs in the hotel between Mrs. Eleanor

Young and Nick Young. It is an informal conversation because they have a close relationship.

Mrs. Eleanor as a speaker suggest Nick as a hearer to take an action that is to pay more

attention to his hand when passing the door. The end of this utterance is Nick do the positive

suggest given by his mother and walk leisurely.

The sentence of “be careful” creates the suggestion expression. In the suggestion

sentence has a lot of meaning that is for something good or even just reminding and inviting.

The purpose of the suggestion utterance is to get the hearer do what the speaker wants, and in

this sentence the speaker asks for a hearing to do something useful and good for themselves

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4.2 Findings and Discussion

The research findings contain several findings based on the research problem

statement. There is finding the types of directive speech acts and directive forms of speech

act that occur in the Crazy Rich Asian movie. Directive functions that express what the

speaker wants. It means both of the speaker and the hearer need to understand about directive

speech act to create a good communication. It indicates that the directive speech act is to get

someone else to do something that what is the speaker want or says. Directive act also has

many meanings that make us have to understand what the speaker is talking about depend on

the meaning and context of the current situation. Then, directive can found in the comic,

novel and movie. In the Crazy Rich Asian movie the form of directive act can be found in the

utterance or conversation between the character in the movie. In conversations between

characters there are also differences in the speaking styles of each character can be seen from

the character's social class. For example, the language used by lower social class people tends

to use requests when they talk while high social class people tend to use commands when

speaking. There are three types of directive acts contained in the movie are command,

request, and suggestion.

Command is one of the types of directive acts that found in the Crazy Rich Asian

movie. Commanding act contains the understanding that in saying the speech the speaker

wants the spoken partner to do an act. In uttering a speech, the speaker feels that he has a

strong reason in his speech so that the speech partner is affected to do so. Example: I told you

to be quiet! From the example, we know that the speaker tried to command the hearers to do

some act (be quite) by said “ I told you” it has the meaning that the speaker wants the hearers

to do what they want. Then, it have to the hearer, he must do it. In this case, the hearer

expresses what the sepaker’s intentions.

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 Request is also one of the types of directive contained in the Crazy Rich Asian movie.

Requesting is a condition where other people are in our mind, our thoughts are on other

people. Of course the mind that expects others to be willing to help us. It shows the speaker's

request to the partner so that the partner does an action. This action indirectly expects the

partner to do what the speaker wants. Example: Can I borrow your pen? This utterance is a

requesting sentence because the speaker want to the hearer to do something that they want.

Suggestion is a type of directive act. It can be interpreted that in saying a speech, the

speaker intends to suggest the speech partner to take action. Speakers give confidence to the

partner to take action. The actions taken by the partner are a good and useful thing for the

speech partner. Example: You should pay more attention to your health. This utterance means

that the speaker give an advice to the hearers, they want the hearers take more attention to

their health.

Asking is a verbal greeting asking for a response from someone who is known. The

response given can be in the form of knowledge up to the things that are the result of

consideration. It can be interpreted that in saying something, the speaker asks the partner to

say about the truth or untruth of a proposition.

There are a few similarities between previous studies about directive act. First, Laily

(2017) analyzed about “Types of Directive Speech Acts Performed by the Main Character

“Thomas” and the Character’ Responses in the Maze Runner Movie”. Second, Dontcheva

(2005) analyzed about “Politeness Strategies in Institutional Speech Acts”. Third, Yanti

(2015) analyzed about “Tindak Tutur Directive dan Ekpresif Presiden Jokowi”. These

researchers also analyze the directive act but with the different way and diferent data.

However, This research just focused on the types and the forms of directive act in movie.

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 CHAPTER V

Conclusion and Suggestions

This chapter presents conclusions that are based on the research’s result and

discussion in the previous chapter. It also present some suggestions for the further researchers

who want to do the research is command and request or speech acts field.

5.1 Conclusion

Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that there are some points which

can answer the research question.

The classification of types directive that occured in the conversation of the character

in the Crazy Rich Asian movie includes three types, command, request, and suggestion. On

this research, the researcher found 50 data. There are 35 commanding, 5 requesting, and 10

suggestion. In this research on the Crazy Rich Asian movie, commanding and suggestion is

mostly used in conversation. It can be seen from dialogues of the character. Directive is it

attemps by a speaker to get a hearer to do something then most of the data from this film is a

command. For example: Can I have a tissue please? The sentence indicates a request from

the speaker to get hearer to give the tissue for her/him.

In this research, the directive speech acts also can be seen in three forms. They are,

imperative form, interrogative form, and declarative form. The researcher found 46

imperative data in this movie, they are 34 imperative data used in command, 2 in request and

10 in suggestion. Declarative data 1 in command.Then for interrogative 3 data in request. In

this research on the Crazy Rich Asian movie, imperative forms is the most commonly found.

It can be seen from the dialogue of the character. Because the imperative form is a sentence

or an utterance used to give command, state polite request by giving direction.

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 From explanation above, it can be concluded that every conversation has many

directive speech acts.And in conversations there are also differences in the speech styles of

each character can be seen from the character's social class. For example, the language used

by lower social class people tends to use requests when they talk while high social class

people tend to use commands when speaking. Whatever directives speech act chosen, the

important thing in directive is how to make the hearer do something.

5.2 Suggestion

Learning pragmatics, especially discourse analysis in speech act is quite important for

the next researchers who concern with communication in social life. Because speech acts can

trap if we cannot understand the meaning and context spoken by the other person. This

research provides several suggestions for the next researcher who analyzes directive speech

acts. They can also analyze how directive speech acts use different languages using the

theory of speech acts that have been developed by Searle

Based on conclusion of the research, the reserach purposes the following suggestion:

1. To the student of English Department, the researcher suggests the students of English

Department to do further research using other perspectives or other data sources. It is

better to try new things that challenge the example an analysis of speech act directive

in social media.

2. For the linguistics students, linguistic students must carry out a deep understanding of

the concept of pragmatics to conduct research on directive speech acts. Because

lessons about directive speech acts can also trap us if we don't understand the real

concept.

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3. For other researchers, other researchers can conduct further research on more specific

directive speech acts, with interesting studies, larger data, and more in-depth analysis

techniques to get the perfect results.

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 APPENDICES

DN Seco TD FDS H/ S Dialogue Picture of Movie

nd S L
01. 00:0 (C) IMP The The owner of the hotel :
2:44 owne Get the Lancaster Suite
(1) r ready. Now
of Manager : (shocked)
the surely you’re joking, sir.
hotel The owner of the hotel : I
assure you, I’m not.as of
this evening...
02. 00:0 (C) IMP Mrs. Mrs. Eleanor Young : Do
3:22 (1) Elan get a mop. The floor’s
or wet.
Youn Manager : (tell to the
g receptionist to take a
mop)
03. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) Man Mrs. Elanor Young :
2:29 ager (enter the hotel)
of Manager : Mrs. Young, I
hotel must ask you to leave or
I’ll have to cal the
police.
Mrs. Elanor young :
please, go right ahead
04. 00:1 (C) IMP (2) Rach Rachel’s mom : you’ve
0:43 el always wanted to go to
Chu Asia. And who knows, if
all goes well in
Singapore, you might just
come back with a
souvenir.
Rachel Chu : Oh, Mom,
Stop!
05. 00:1 (R) INT (2) Ass. Ass. Producer : She’s
4:21 Prod terrible. Can’t we get
ucer someone else?
Producer : He’s financing
the whole movie. You tell
him his girlfriend sucks.
06. 00:1 (C) IMP (2) Baby (Children playing the car)
5:08 sitter Babysitter : Stop!

07. 00:2 (C) IMP (1) Aunti (the dogs bark)

7:32 e Auntie Neenah : Astor!
Neen Vanderbilt! Rockefeller!
ah Naughty, naughty boys.
Stop Barking!

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08. 00:3 (C) IMP Peik Security : ya ya (allow
4:20 (1) Lin them to enter)
Peik Lin : we can
through? We’re going
through? Okay. Don’t
stab the car.
09. 00:4 (R) INT (1) Nick (Rachel accidentally
4:56 Youn spills a drink into a
g Nick’s suit)
Rachel : Oh, my God! So
sorry
Nick Young : it’s fine.
Don’t worry about it. Can
have a tissue please?
Oliver : (give the tissue)
Go, go. Get changed.
10. 01:1 (C) IMP (1) Nick Ah ma : Oh, Nick.
0:49 Youn Nick Young : come and
g sit.
Ah ma : oh nick, you
brought Rachel. Good
(Everyone’s smile)
11. 01:1 (C) IMP (2) Phot (Rachel comes)
9:44 ograf Oliver : Everyone, I’ve
er got Rachel Chu of New
York.
(Rachel! Rache! To me!)
Photografer : okay, ladies,
looking good. Out of the
way, please. Out of the
way.
Kitty Pong : So gorgeous!
Rachel chu : Thank you.
12. 00:0 (R) INT (2) Rach Nick Young : I don’t
5:25 el know what you’re talking
Chu about. Cause I have, like
a tiny bit.
Rachel Chu : Uh-huh.
Okay. Can we have one
more of these, please?
Thankyou
13. 01:2 (C) IMP (1) Astri Michael : you’re always
1:39 d the prettiest, richest, most
perfect girl in the room.
While I’m just this lucky
bastard who will never
measure up.
Astrid : don’t say that.
Michael : I know you’re
thinking, Astrid.

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14. 01:2 (C) IMP (1) Nick Nick Young : how are
4:56 Youn you feeling?
g Collin : good.
Nick Young : all right.
Don’t be nervous.
Collin : I’m not nervous.
Nick Young : you look
great.
Collin : thank you.
15. 00:0 (S) IMP (2) Rach Nick Young : Yes! Mmm
5:13 el (take the Rachel cake)
Chu Rachel Chu : you know
what? You can order
your own.
Nick Young : mmm. I’m
okay with coffee. Thanks

16. 00:0 (R) IMP (1) Man Mrs. Eleanor Young : I’m
2:01 ager Mrs. Eleanor Young. My
of family and I would like to
hotel be shown to ur suite.
We’ve had a long flight.
Manager : we’re fully
booked, madam. You
must have made a
mistake. I’m sure you and
your family can find
another accomodation.
17. 01:3 (S) IMP (2) Rach Rachel’s mom : before we
9:34 el’s go, I think you should go
Moth and talk to him.
er Rachel : huuh (exhale)

18. 01:4 (C) IMP (1) AstriMichael : Hey. I’m gonna

7:06 d send someone for the rest
of my stuff. But I wanna
talk to you about my
visitation rights with
Cassian.
Astrid : stop talking.
Michael : what?
Astrid : don’t worry about
packing your things. You
bought this apartment.
You keep it. We’re
leaving.
19. 01:5 (C) IMP (1) Nick Nick Young : Rachel!
0:11 Youn Rachel! Stay there.
g Rachel’s mom : I’m
gonna go and look for
some extra blankets.
(Rachel confuse)
Passenger : Hello, quickly

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 Rachel Chu : sorry, just
one second. Nick, what
are you doing here?
20. 01:5 (C) IMP (1) Nick Nick Young : Sorry, I can
1:14 Youn help you with that. All
g right, it’s fine. Stay there.
Yay. You, too? Watch
your fingers. Lift it up.
Okay.
Passenger : thank you.
21. 01:3 (S) IMP (1) Peik Peik Lin : you need to eat.
5:18 Lin Or use the bathroom.
Or maybe a shower. It’s
there if you need it.
Rachel : hmm
22. 00:2 (C) IMP (1) Colli Collin : (bring food)
0:00 n Look at this. Look at
this.
Araminta : (Shocked) My
favorite.
23. 00:1 (C) IMP (2) Rach Rachel Chu : Okay, game
1:37 el plan. Check our bags,
Chu get through security and
then we could eat one of
the three homemade
tupperware meals my
mom packed for us.
Nick Young : (smile)
Airport employees : Good
afternoon, Mr. Young.
Miss Chu.
24. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) Mrs. Mrs. Elanor Young :
9:22 Elan Move on to Corinthians.
or I’ll catch up.
Youn Her partner : Oh, yes.
g
25. 00:0 (S) IMP (1) Mrs. (Nick and Astrid enter the
1:01 Elan Hotel)
or Mrs. Eleanor Young : Be
Youn careful, your fingers.
g (they stop run and just
walking)
26. 00:5 (C) IMP (1) Ara Araminta : we’re flying to
2:11 mint my mom’s resort in
a Sumatera. She’s closed
down the whole place just
for us. We’re gonna have
so much fun. Come on,
meet the girls. Girls, this
is Rachel Chu.
Rachel Chu : Hi! (shaking
hand).

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27. 01:3 (C) IMP (2) Rach Rachel : Ohh. I’m really
8:43 el’s sorry
Moth Rachel’s mom : oh! Don’t
er be sorry. You listen to
me. Everything that
happened in my past life
is the reason why I got
you. My brave and clever
girl.
(Rachel smile)
28. 01:3 (S) IMP (2) Rach Rachel’s mom : drink
7:01 el’s more. The dong-quaiand
Moth the gingseng will give you
er more energy.
Rachel : thanks (take the
tray)
Rachel’s mom : your
spirit has always been so
strong, ever since young.
You will get through this.
29. 01:3 (S) IMP (1) Peik Peik Lin : Rachel. come
5:07 Lin to breakfats. You need to
eat. Or use the bathroom.
Or maybe a shower. It’s
there if you need it.
Rachel : hmm

30. 01:3 (C) IMP (1) Ah (Rachel leaves)

3:21 Ma Nick Young : Rachel!
Ah ma : Don’t chase
after her and degrade
yourself. I forbid it. If you
go with her, you can’t
come back!
Nick Young : Let me go!
Rachel.
Mrs. Eleanor Young :
Nick!

31. 01:3 (C) IMP (1) Bern Bernard Thai : sick party.
2:01 ad Ladies : yeah!
Thai Bernard Thai : Hold that.
(Give the wine to the
ladies)

32. 01:3 (C) IMP (1) Mrs. (Kitty pong and her
0:10 Elan boyfriend hot dancing)
or Mrs. Eleanor Young :
Youn Oliver.
g Oliver : yes, auntie?
Mrs. Eleanor Young : be

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that.
Oliver: as you wish.
33. 01:2 (C) IMP (1) Colli Collin : hey, Rachel’s not
5:12 n sitting with your family.
Nick Young : yeah. I
don’t blame her. Mother
hasn’t exactly been the
most welcoming. But I’m
sure she’ll be at the back
somewhere laying low.
Collin : No. She’s right at
the front. Take a look.
Nick Young : (look and
smile)
34. 01:2 (C) IMP (1) Astri Michael: I have to fly in
0:31 d to Shenzhen on Monday
to try and talk them down.
Astrid: That’s Cassian’s
birthday.
Michael : yeah, I know. I
hate to miss it, but this is
important.
Astrid : you’d think your
son’s birthday’s
important. Get someone
else to handle it.
35. 01:2 (C) IMP (1) Astri Michael : I wish you
1:26 d would. It would show you
can cared about more than
what people thought of
you and your family.
Astrid : Don’t try and
turn this on me. I’m not
the one who screwed up!
Michael : of course not.
36. 00:3 (C) IMP (1) Peik Ah pa : she has an
0:31 Lin’s amazng backside. This is
father Gh standard. don’t be
shy. Just talk to her.
P.T : I love you.
Ah pa : okay. No, just,
uh..
37. 01:1 (S) IMP (1) Mrs. Mrs. Eleanor Young : I
3:19 Elan know this much. You will
or never be enough. We
Youn should head back. I
g wouldn’t want Nick to
worry.
(Rachel quiet and back)
38. 01:1 (C) IMP (1) Ah Ah ma : let me have a
1:17 Ma look, come closer. Mmm.
Very nice looking. Sit sit.
(everyone is sitting)

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39. 01:1 (R) IMP (1) Ah Ah ma : I can see you
1:03 ma more clearly in the day.
The shape of your nose is
auspicious. Let me have
a look, come closer..
mmm very nice looking.
40. 01:0 (S) IMP (2) Rach Rachel : you okay?
4:07 el Astrid : yeah...
Chu (they meet each other)
actually.. No.
Rachel Chu : you could
talk to me.
Astrid : Michael is having
an affair.

41. 00:5 (C) IMP (1) Aram (the ladies choose goods)
7:38 inta Araminta : Time’s up!
Next stop... Spa!
(the ladies cheering)

42. 00:5 (C) IMP (1) Bern Bernard Thai : what’s up?
1:33 ard Let’s jam!
Thai (everyone’s cheering)

43. 00:5 (C) IMP (1) Nick’ Nick’s auntie : Look,

0:50 s they’re in full bloom.
Aunti (everyone’s look the
e flower and amazed)

44. 00:4 (C) IMP (2) Olive Nick Young : Can I have
4:58 r a tissue please?
Oliver : (bring the tissue)
Go, go. Get changed. I’ll
keep Rachel company.
Nick : Thank you, Oli.
You’re in good hands.
Give me two minutes. I’ll
change.
45. 00:4 (S) IMP (1) Nick’ Nick’s old nanny: Nick, is
3:10 s old this your girlfriend? You
nann should hurry up and get
y married!
Rachel Chu : Ah ma,
thank you for inviting me
to your home. It is very
beautiful.
Nick Young : this is Ling
Cheh, my old nanny.

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46. 00:4 (C) IMP (2) Mich Astrid : I forgot to get
4:16 ael you a fork.
Michael : it’s okay, you
stay. I’ll go get it.
Astrid : hmm (smile)
47. 00:4 (C) IMP (1) Eddi Eddie : yeah, it’s
2:21 e everywhere.
Nick : I’m gonna stop you
there because I’m gonna
take her on the rounds.
We’ll back, though. No,
wait. Hang on.
(Rachel and Nick smile)
48. 00:3 (S) IMP (1) Mrs. Nick : Mom. (kiss his
8:59 Elan mom)
or Mrs. Eleanor Young : you
Youn need a haicut. So
g unkempt and you look
tired from your trip. I’m
gonna ask the cook to
make you some herbal
soup.
49. 00:2 (C) IMP (1) Peik Children : Ah Pa, can we
9:39 Lin’s go trampoline?
fathe Ah pa : go trampoline?
r You haven’t finished your
nuggets yet, sweetie.
Okay, there’s a lot of
children starving in
America, right? I mean
taktye a look at her (
refers to Rachel). She’s
American, huh? Really
skinny. You wanna look
like that?
Children : No.
Ah pa : Then eat your
nuggets!
(children eat the nuggets)
50. 00:0 (C) IMP (1) Mana Mrs. Eleanor Young : Do
3:30 ger get a mop. The floor’s
of wet.
hotel Manager : Get a mop
(Receptionist shock and
go take a mop)

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NOTES :
DN: Data Number
TDS: Type of Directive Speech Act
FDS: Form of Directive Speech Act
(C): Commanding
(R): Request
(S): Suggesting
D: Dialogue
S: Speaker
IMP: Imperative
INT: Interrogative
DEC: Declarative
H/L : High or Low social class of the character
(1) : High social class
(2) : Low social class

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