Variation of Directive Speech act of Stephen Hawking in the Theory of Everything Movie

:As social being, we used language as a tool to communicate and interact with others. Through communication people can convey what she or he trying to say such as giving information, asking something, express an idea and opinion, etc. When someone speaks, every word, phrase, or sentence she or he utters are not just utterances without meaning, however it can perform action through the utterances. The action through utterance called speech acts. This study investigates the variation of directive speech act by examining the utterance produce by Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything film as the primary data. In analyzing and interpreting the data, qualitative method applies to this study. A total variation of directive speech act is 19 data. The result shows there are only three variations performed, command (10 times or 53%), request (7 times or 37%), and suggestion (2 times or 10%). Command being the most dominant used by Stephen Hawking.