Expressive Speech Acts in the Movie ‘Joker’ As Teaching Materials for EFL Learners
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https://doi.org/10.32528/issh.v3i2.595Keywords:
Language, Speech Acts, Expressive Speech Acts, Movie, Teaching materialsAbstract
Language has a crucial role in interaction, speech, and emotional expression throughout communication. Communication is the process of exchanging messages between individuals, when communicating with individuals it is essential to express not only our words but also use an action in our utterances, and it is referred as a speech acts. The kind of speech acts that are typically utilized in communication are expressive speech acts. Expressive speech acts are expresses the speaker’s feelings towards the situation in all earnestness and the social relationship among the speaker and the hearer. This research attempts to analyze the types and meanings of expressive speech acts used by the characters in the movie Joker by Todd Phillips as teaching materials for EFL learners. The teacher might have a discussion with the learners using a trustworthy example from the movie. In this research employed a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data by applying theory proposed by Searle (1979). The data was gathered from the movie that was taken from the utterances used by the characters. The finding shows there were ten types of expressive speech acts, they are; thanking, congratulating, apologizing, condoling, deploring, welcoming, praising, wishing, greeting, and attitude. A teacher could utilize these excerpts from the movie as teaching materials for EFL Learners.
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