SPEECH ACT ANALYZING IN TOP GUN: MAVERICK FILM
Institut Bisnis Nusantara
This article discussed the identification of speech acts through several dialogues between characters in the
film Top Gun: Maverick. The aim of this study to find out the types of speech act used in Top Gun:
Maverick. The data were utterances suspected to have speech act uttered by characters in this film. The
method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method to classify speech acts used in the Top Gun:
Maverick. The result of this study found three types of speech acts used in the Top gun: Maverick film,
namely expressive speech acts preferred form found one data and the form of misery found one data,
Perlocutionary speech acts form rejection found two data and directive speech acts.
Keywords: Film Speech Act Top Gun Maverick Film Utterances