Abstract :
This term paper is about ?Illocutionary acts found in the Quentin Tarantino?s movie
script ?Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?? using the speech acts theory of John
Searle, unconsciousness and jokes? theory by Sigmund Freud. This research will be
done qualitatively without involving any numbers. To be more specific, this
research is analyzing the implied meaning behind utterance of the characters
through the speech acts theory which consists of locutionary, illocutionary, and
perlocutionary acts in the movie. After analyzing the implied meaning behind
characters? utterances, I categorized the types of jokes that the characters have
uttered into two categories that are; tendentious joke and non-tendentious Joke. The
theory of humor is dissecting the way the characters perform the jokes. If it is
offensive then it can be categorized into tendentious joke, if it does not involve any
offensive term then it is a non-tendentious joke. The theory of humor will be dealing
with tendency of the joke.