THE EXPRESSIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS FOUND IN THE PERSUASION MOVIE

This study analyzes the Attitude of expressive illocutionary acts found in the movie script of "Persuasion." Data used in this study could be considered qualitative data, and it was analyzed using a qualitative descriptive method. Explaining the sentence in the data allows a precise analysis using the theory from Searle (1979) and supported by theory Halliday and Hasan (1985). The findings show that there are 26 sentences of expressive illocutionary acts. The result shows that the most dominant type used by character is expressive of Thanking, which contains 8 utterances. The character in The “Persuasion” movie mostly expressed feelings about gratitude, so they most used an expressive of thanking. There should be more research on the expressive illocutionary act with different theories and methods. Hopefully, this research can be helpful in education and help further research.