Abstract :
Language is one of the most important things in every human's social life because
the main function of language which is for communication. Humans communicate
with each other using language through speech acts.The purpose of this research is
to know the types of speech acts which are dominantly presented by Five Feet Apart
movie through its script. Speech acts is devided into three acts; locutionary acts,
illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts. In this research, an illocutionary acts
become main concern because it is the most important act in the speech acts and it
related to the speaker?s intends. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to
analyze the selected of speech acts which are taken from the script, and classifies
them according to the John R. Searle?s concept of types of illocutionary acts. The
writer finds that the main characters used types of illocutinary acts: representative,
directives, commisives, and expressives.