ABSTRACT

The aims of this research are to find the types of expressive utterances produced by the characters in the movie entitled “Dead Poets Society” and to find the linguistic variability of the expressive utterances. This is a pragmatic research, which is a form of qualitative research. The source of the data of this research is the transcript of the movie. “Dead Poets Society” is an American drama movie that was released in 1989 and was directed by Peter Weir.The result of this research showed that there are 40 expressive utterances in the movie which cover : 20 utterances of thanking (50.00%), 9 utterances of apologizing (20.00%), 6 utterances of welcoming (15.00%) 4 utterances of congratulating (7.50%), 2 utterances of condoling (5.00%), and 1 utterance of deploring (2.50%). This research provides some empirical uses of expressive speech acts and their linguistic variability which can be used in English teaching and learning activity.

 Keywords : expressive utterance, pragmatics, content analysis, speech acts