Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

Directive Speech Acts in Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki

Authors
Hafizah El Khairvzakhair46@upi.edu
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
Corresponding Author
Hafizah El Khairvzakhair46@upi.edu
Available Online 21 November 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.049How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Directive speech acts; lingual marker; order; prohibition; request; suggestion
Abstract

This study was aimed at identifying Japanese directive speech acts in Howl’s Moving Castle, a film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It also described and interpreted the meanings and lingual markers which signified the directive speech acts in the film. A descriptive qualitative method was used in this study and the dialogues in the film were transcribed and categorized following the four types of functions as proposed by Searle (2012). The results of the analysis showed that there were 168 utterances which were identified as directive speech acts under the four categories. Meirei [order] was used in 100 utterances, irai [request] occurred in 23 utterances, kinshi [prohibition] was evident in 19 utterances, and susume [suggestion] occurred in 26 utterances. The findings demonstrate that this film showed mostly used order form. The lingual marker of ~na in this film could direct to different meanings. It could be a prohibition or an order depending on the context and situation. The overall findings suggest that Japanese culture used a different form of language based on status such as age or else showed in the film clearly.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 November 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.049
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.049How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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