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Language as a system of communication plays a crucial role in every aspect of human life. Through language we can express our ideas in our mind and confess our feelings in order to interact with other people or even society. When we have conversation with others, we do not only produce an utterance, but also perform or expect actions through the utterance in the process of communication, which is called as speech acts. The utterance is differentiated into direct and indirect speech act. Direct speech act is uttered in a simple way. Indirect speech act is uttered in more complicated way. For example, the speaker uses interrogative when giving command in order to disguise the command. It is called illocutionary act. It is very interesting to analyze because the complexity of the meaning delivered by the speaker through utterances. The interesting phenomena in illocutionary act is directive illocutionary act. Directives are those kinds of speech acts that speakers use to get someone else to do something. They express what the speaker wants. This research aims at finding out the types of directive illocutionary acts used by the characters in Pride and Prejudice movie and discovering the intended meaning of each utterances. The data were taken from Pride and Prejudice movie. The data were collected by using observation method and notetaking technique. The data were then analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. They were analyzed by using theory of speech acts and presented by using informal method.

Language as a system of communication plays a crucial role in every aspect of human life. Through language we can express our ideas in our mind and confess our feelings in order to interact with other people or even society. When we have conversation with others, we do not only produce an utterance, but also perform or expect actions through the utterance in the process of communication, which is called as speech acts. The utterance is differentiated into direct and indirect speech act. Direct speech act is uttered in a simple way. Indirect speech act is uttered in more complicated way. For example, the speaker uses interrogative when giving command in order to disguise the command. It is called illocutionary act. It is very interesting to analyze because the complexity of the meaning delivered by the speaker through utterances. The interesting phenomena in illocutionary act is directive illocutionary act. Directives are those kinds of speech acts that speakers use to get someone else to do something. They express what the speaker wants. This research aims at finding out the types of directive illocutionary acts used by the characters in Pride and Prejudice movie and discovering the intended meaning of each utterances. The data were taken from Pride and Prejudice movie. The data were collected by using observation method and notetaking technique. The data were then analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. They were analyzed by using theory of speech acts and presented by using informal method.