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

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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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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hafizah El Khair
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/21
TI  - Directive Speech Acts in Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 316
EP  - 322
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.049
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.049
ID  - Khair2021
ER  -