The document discusses illocutionary acts in communication and film. It aims to identify and classify direct and indirect illocutionary acts in dialogues from the movie "50 First Dates" to understand the speaker's intent. The researcher analyzed sample dialogues from the movie using descriptive methods like tape recording, identification, classification, and note taking.

2. Communication is a social activity requiring the coordinated efforts of two or more individuals Once involved in conversation, both speaker and hearer must actively respond to what transpires by signaling involvement, either directly through words or indirectly through gestures or similar nonverbal signals Film/movie is one media that reflects human social life. It is played by some actors/actresses The actor/ actress speak one to another, and there will be Illocutionary Act. And it is one reason why the writer takes a film as the data of her analysis.

3. To identify and classify the utterances into Direct and Indirect Illocutionary Acts. To identify the acts that often occurs in the dialogue/conversation of this movie. To explain the speaker’s aim in using Direct Illocutionary Acts and Indirect Illocutionary Acts in the dialogue of the movie.

4. Kind of Illocutionary Act is: Direct illocution Indirect Illocution “ Illocutionary Act (or simply the illocution) carried out by a speaker making an utterance is the act viewed in terms of the utterance’s significance within a conventional system of social interaction.” (Hurford, 1983:244). The direct Illocution of an utterance is the illocution most directly indicated by a literal reading of grammatical form and vocabulary of the sentence uttered The indirect Illocution of an utterance is any further illocution the utterance may have