Abstract :
Speech act is using utterances to perform some actions, in any occasions. This study
intend to analyze speech act used by one of the main characters in The Happy Prince
movie. The analysis contains the investigation of what acts emerge behind the
utterances and the impacts for the hearer after the utterances is stated. The purpose
of this study is to find out what illocutionary acts are used by Oscar Wilde as one
of the main characters in The Happy Prince movie, and to describe the
perlocutionary act of illocutionary act used. The main data is movie and subtitle of
the movie itself. The form of the data is dialogue. I also take some references such
as journal, books, websites to support the main data. The method of the collecting
data in this research, I use documentation since the data are collected from movie
and subtitle of the movie itself. The data are organized based on types of speech
acts, illocutionary and perlocutionary. Then speech acts of each type are analyzed
by using John R. Searle?s theory of speech act.