Key Words: Speech act, “The Translator” Movie In the study of language, what people do by saying something is called speech acts. Sometimes it has deep meaning to hearer. Speech acts is not only found in everyday life but it also can find in the film. This research concerns with speech acts produced by the main character in The Translator movie. The aims of this research are to describe th…
ABSTRACT Ahmad Faozan, 2014, An Analysis on Speech Acts: Illocution in The Presidential Inaugural Address of Barack Hussein Obama. Thesis, Tarbiyah Department, English Teaching Learning Program, Advisor: Mulyadi, S.S., M.Pd. Key words: Speech acts, illocution, inaugural address. Speech act is a theory attributed to John L. Austin (1962) who introduced the idea with the basic belief th…