Short Communication
Year: 2023 | Month: February | Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 868-879
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.202302104
The Comparison between Emily’s and Gabriel’s Expressive Speech Acts in the “Emily in Paris” Movie Series
Desya Kurnia Saputri1, Issy Yuliasri2, Hendi Pratama3
1,2,3English Language Education, Master Program of Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Desya Kurnia Saputri
ABSTRACT
This study aims to compare Emily as a native English speaker and Gabriel as a non-native English speaker to illustrate the types of expressive speech acts, expressive speech effects in the Emily In Paris movie series to see their similarities and differences expressive speech act. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data was a transcript of data from Emily in Paris movie, the data were taken from the script, then classified according to the Searle's concept and Hymes's concept of type expressive act. Data were analyzed using ten types of expressive act instruments according Searle (1976), namely: thanking, apologizing, congratulating, greeting, wishing, attitude, condoling, blaming, praising, forgiving and supported by (IFID). The data were analyzed by identifying the types of expressive acts, classifying, comparing, interpreting, and concluding. The results of the study show that there are 138 expressive utterances found in the film Emily in Paris, Emily (100) and Gabriel (35).
This study found four similarities; Both of them were dominant presented two types expressive acts such as praising and wishing. Both dominant presented expressive acts explicitly because they always said directly and clearly what they mean. For praing and wishing, they did not present implicitly. Three differences were; Emily presented more expressive acts (100), while Gabriel only (35). In the praising type, the charcaters Emily and Gabriel were always showing compliment statements to their friends.
The most similarity lies in praising and apologizing which were the types most often used by them. Emily uses the act of praising (19) while Gabriel uses the act of praising (11), both tend to implicitly present expressive acts.
Keywords: Expressive Act, Pragmatics, Speech act, Movie series.
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