THE USE OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN “JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3: PARABELLUM (2019)” DIRECTED BY CHAD STAHELSKI

Abstract

This research identified the directive speech acts performed in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019). Moreover, this research also investigated how often direct speech acts are performed. Qualitative research was used by collecting data from watching the movie and reading the script. There are 72 dialogues that contain directive speech acts that were successfully identified. The result of the analysis shows that the frequency of occurrences of six types of directive acts found is, first, the most dominant type is the Asking directive act with 47 utterances (65,27%). The second most frequent directive speech act found in the film is Commanding, with 13 utterances (18,05%). The third most frequently used type of directive act is Requesting, which has six occurrences (8,33%). Lastly, the fourth most frequently used type of directive act is suggesting with three occurrences (4,16%). The last two types of directive acts found in the movie are advising and inviting. The use of both similar acts is almost equally distributed in the movie, but advising occupies the least frequently used type of directive act, as presented in the table. It appears as many as two times or (2,77%).