This research is intended to: (1) discover the types of expressive speech acts spoken by the protagonist and antagonist in the movie “Luck”, (2) explain the characterization of the characters based on the types of expressive speech acts spoken by the protagonist and antagonist in the movie “Luck”, and (3) explain the development of protagonist and antagonist characterization from orientation, complication, evaluation, and resolution based on the types of speech acts used in the movie “Luck”.
The researcher used a qualitative descriptive method. The approach of research used is the socio-pragmatics approach. The researcher focuses on the combination theories of expressive speech acts by Searle and Vanderveken (1985) and Cruse (2000) in this research. The data sources in this research are the movie “Luck” and its generic structure, from orientation to resolution of the movie. Hence, a total sampling technique is used in this research. Meanwhile, the data collection technique is content analysis.
The results of this research show a total of 111 expressive speech acts data expressed by both characters. The protagonist expressed more positive expressions (greeting, thanking, condoling, praising, complimenting, apologizing) and the antagonist expressed more negative expressions (protesting and blaming). Moreover, the characterization that emerges based on the types of expressive speech acts represented by the two characters shows a significant difference. The protagonist character produces much more positive characterization (45) than negative characterization (10), while the antagonist character excels in negative characterization (31) compared to positive characterization (26). Furthermore, the development of characterization in both characters begins to be revealed through the order of the movie stages (orientation, complication, evaluation, and resolution). The amount of data based on the movie stages increased in complications. However, the significant characterization development is visible in the evaluation, in which Sam as the protagonist demonstrates the negative dominant characterization and in contrast, Bob as the antagonist indicates the positive characterization is dominant. In addition, the last stage only shows results in the positive characterization of both characters.
