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Speech Act Analysis in Walt Disney's 'Frozen' Film, Summaries of English Literature

A research study on speech acts in walt disney's 'frozen' film. The study uses descriptive qualitative research to analyze the dialogue transcript of the film, identifying four types of speech acts: representative, expressive, directive, and commisive. The findings reveal the most frequently occurring speech act in the film is directive, and the study suggests that children can imitate and adopt utterances indicating one or more type of speech act, contributing to their language acquisition.

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Name : Dea Anggie Syahrani
Student ID : 5032011020
Class : 20SIA
Course : language Competency
Critical Review
A. JOURNAL IDENTITY
Title : Speech Act Analysis on Walt Disney Film Entitled 'Frozen'
Author : Sukasih Ratna Widayanti and Kustinah
Year of Publication : 2018
B. JOURNAL SUMMARY
1. Introduction
Literary works such as plays, novels, films consists of dialogue between the
characters. Through dialogue between each character, we can get a message from the film.
This means that film as a medium of communication is functioning as a medium for
conveying messages. Messages in a film can be in the form of words, phrases, clauses, an
sentences. Oral discourse consisting of various kinds of utterances and actions. One
character in the film can perform multiple actions when he or she delivers several
utterances. Characters have a role to play show information.
Frozen is one of the films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studio and released
in 2013. It is one of the famous movie inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale
called The Snow Queen. She tells the story of a brave princess who sets out on a journey
along with the rugged iceman, his loyal reindeer and snowmen to find his sister who has
the power of ice. His sister has trapping their kingdom in eternal winter through force.
Frozen is also one of the representations of the children's film genre. Regarding speech
acts, there is a phenomenon in Walt Disney film Frozen is about how speech acts work
commonly used in movies. It is selected as the object of learn because it has a lot of
dialogue in the form of speech which can be analyzed in the aspect of speech acts. This
film also has won several awards.
2. Method
- This study uses descriptive qualitative research which refers to research procedures to
produce descriptive data belonging to people written or spoken words, and observable
behavior.
- The main data of this study were dialogue transcript of the film.
- The source of the data was Walt Disney Film entitled Frozen. The data collected from
the utterances performed in the dialogues by the character in Frozen.
- The writers watch the film comprehensively in order to get a deep comprehension.
- They also try to find out the lingual units related to the objective of the study.
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Name : Dea Anggie Syahrani Student ID : 5032011020 Class : 20SIA Course : language Competency Critical Review A. JOURNAL IDENTITY Title : Speech Act Analysis on Walt Disney Film Entitled 'Frozen' Author : Sukasih Ratna Widayanti and Kustinah Year of Publication : 2018 B. JOURNAL SUMMARY

1. Introduction Literary works such as plays, novels, films consists of dialogue between the characters. Through dialogue between each character, we can get a message from the film. This means that film as a medium of communication is functioning as a medium for conveying messages. Messages in a film can be in the form of words, phrases, clauses, an sentences. Oral discourse consisting of various kinds of utterances and actions. One character in the film can perform multiple actions when he or she delivers several utterances. Characters have a role to play show information. Frozen is one of the films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studio and released in 2013. It is one of the famous movie inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale called The Snow Queen. She tells the story of a brave princess who sets out on a journey along with the rugged iceman, his loyal reindeer and snowmen to find his sister who has the power of ice. His sister has trapping their kingdom in eternal winter through force. Frozen is also one of the representations of the children's film genre. Regarding speech acts, there is a phenomenon in Walt Disney film Frozen is about how speech acts work commonly used in movies. It is selected as the object of learn because it has a lot of dialogue in the form of speech which can be analyzed in the aspect of speech acts. This film also has won several awards. 2. Method - This study uses descriptive qualitative research which refers to research procedures to produce descriptive data belonging to people written or spoken words, and observable behavior. - The main data of this study were dialogue transcript of the film. - The source of the data was Walt Disney Film entitled Frozen. The data collected from the utterances performed in the dialogues by the character in Frozen. - The writers watch the film comprehensively in order to get a deep comprehension. - They also try to find out the lingual units related to the objective of the study.

  • They write the data and classify based on Searle’s types of speech act. The process of data analysis began when the writers collect the data. After the data identification, the data classify and analyse into their types of speech act. Then, the writers describe and interpret the data in order to answer the objective of the study. 3. Findings and Discussion
  • In this part, the writers found four types of speech act in Walt Disney film entitled Frozen. They are representative, expressive, directive, and commisive.
  • Representative : Representative conveys someone’s belief that some proposition is true. The context of situation can be seen when the King, the Queen, Elsa, and Anna come to Grand Pibbie (the oldest troll who also have magical power) after the unfortunate accident happened to Anna who injured by Elsa’s power. From Grand Pibbie’s utterance, representative speech act is occurred. It is in the form of sentence ‘The heart is not so easily changed.’ It is a belief in the Arendelle, the kingdom, that is truly happened when Elsa’s magical power touch the heart of Anna. It makes not easy to heal since the heart is the most important thing in our life. It can feel the love and fear.
  • Expressive : Expressive express the psychological state. Below is the example of the data that indicate the use of expressive. The context of situation is happened when Elsa and Anna played with Elsa’s magical power. They were happy to play together with the snow. But, unfortunately Elsa injured Anna with her snowy power. The King and Queen heard Elsa’s scream. Elsa says ‘I’m sorry, Anna!’ She tries to express her psychological state of pardoning. In this utterance, she feels really sorry about Anna’s condition which is caused by her magical power. This data indicates the use of expressive in this film entitled Frozen.
  • Directive : Directive is is used by the speaker to get the addressee to do something. Below is the example of the data that show the use of directive. The context of situation is occurred when the King, the Queen, Elsa, and Anna come to Grand Pibbie to ask for a help. They want to heal Anna from the accident. The King’s utterances show the occurrence of directive speech act. The King says ‘We’ll protect her.’ It means that he requests to protect Elsa from her power. Then, he adds ‘we’ll lock the gates.’ It means that he also requests to close the gate to protect Elsa form other people. He also says ‘We’ll reduce the staff’. It means that the King request to minimize the amount of the staff in the kingdom in order to protect Elsa from her magical power. Finally he says ‘We will limit her contact with people, and keep her powers hidden from everyone, including Anna.’ It also King’s request to make a boundary. He asks to other people not to keep contact with Elsa. He wants that nobody knows about Elsa’s magical power, especially Anna, her sister since she ever injured by Elsa’s power.
  • Commisive : Commisive commits the speaker to some future course of action. Below is the example of the data that indicate the use of commisive. The context of situation is happened when a coronation party held in the Arandelle. Elsa becomes the Queen since her parent were passed away in the journey back home. There is one guest named Duke of Weaselton who have a conversation with Elsa. The conversation above

writes the definition of each type of speech act found and doesn't forget to put the dialogue that will be analyzed as the data. CONCLUSION : Explained concisely and completely about the results of the research that has been done described earlier. BIBLIOGRAPHY : The writing of the bibliography is in accordance with the rules of writing.