Inside Out Movie Analysis

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1.1. Background of Study Language is the way which is used by human to build a communication. Language can be expressed to be written or spoken way. Language can be used to convey our feeling, giving opinions, declaring, and commending. Halliday (2003) state that language is a system of meaning of a semiotic system and presented deeply in pragmatics. Pragmatics is the subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies in which context contributes to the meaning, meanings can be expressed by the speaker with the performance of speech act. John Searle, 1975, speech act is “Speaking a language is preforming speech acts, acts such as making statements, giving commands, asking questions or making promises. Illocutionary act is one of speech act’s…show more content…
To classify the types of expressive illocutionary acts contained in the movie entitled Inside Out? 2. To explain the context of situation support the appearance of expressive illocutionary acts found in the Riley’s dialog or conversation in the movie entitled Inside Out? 1.4 Scope of Discussion In connection with the aims of study mentioned above, discovering the explanation about speech act are very comprehensive. There is illocutionary acts as one of speech act’s level which is carries the main concept contains expressions of various actions in the social environment and Expressive illocutionary acts as one of its classification, selected as the focus of this study. The theories used by the researcher are a classification of illocutionary acts proposed by John A. Searle (1979) and The Ethnography of Communication “socially contextual situations” proposed by Hymes, (1972). 1.5 Research Method In this chapter will be consisted by four components, those are data source, method and technique of collecting data, method and technique of analyzing data, method and technique of presenting the data. The researcher establish systematic method because method is an important part in doing research to get good result. 1.5.1 Data…show more content…
This movie tells about Riley's emotions - led by Joy (Amy Poehler) - try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. However, the stress of the move brings Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to the forefront. When Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley's mind, the only emotions left in Headquarters are Anger, Fear and Disgust. This movie becomes very interesting to be discussed. The data will be taken from the main character dialogs and conversations, named Riley. The research will be focused on the Riley’s utterance related with expressive illocutionary acts. The language that used in Riley's dialogue and conversation with the other characters is very easy, also supported by the Riley’s new live with a lot of emotion and

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