Abstrak

This research aims at analyzing the advisive directive speech acts based on Tsui’s theories applied by the characters on a movie entitled Ice Age 4 and how the politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson are applied in delivering the advisive directive speech acts.
This research is a descriptive qualitative research. It uses pragmatic approach especially speech acts theories in investigating the data. The data themselves are taken from the dialogues containing a warning or an advice that are collected by using purposive sampling technique. Ice Age 4 movie is chosen as the source of data because there are a number of dangerous scenes on it. Therefore, a number of advices and warnings are found in the movie.
The results of this research show that there are 39 data found in the movie. They are classified into 19 advices and 20 warnings. Thus, all types of the advisive directive speech acts are found in the movie. Besides, in delivering the advices, all politeness strategies are applied by the characters while in delivering the warnings there is a strategy that is not applied, namely the negative politeness strategy.

Keywords : Directive, Advice, Warning, Politeness