AN ANALYSIS OF PERLOCUTIONARY EFFECT IN “INSIDE OUT” MOVIE

This study aims to find out the kinds of speech act based on Levinson‘s (1983)
theory and the perlocutionary effect based on Gu‘s (1993) theory that employed in
―Inside Out‖ movie. This study used qualitative method to describe the kinds of
speech act and the perlocutionary effect used by the characters in ―Inside Out‖
movie which was released in 2015. Based on the results, there were 152
locutionary act, 48 illocutionary act, and 48 perlocutionary act. The finding show
that locutionary act is the most frequently used in this study. While, there were six
perlocutionary effect that performed by the characters, namely 1 motor reflexive
response, 12 emotive response, 3 cognitive response, 2 negative response, 17
verbal response, and 13 physical response. It can be seen that verbal response is
the most frequently performed by the characters in ―Inside Out‖ movie because
the characters always response by verbally answer to what speaker intends.
Keywords: Speech act, Perlocutionary effect, Movie