An Analysis of Expressives Speech Act in ‘Enola Holmes’ Film

Discourse analysis is the type of analysis where the main focus is on language use. In this study the researcher focuses onthe pragmatic field by using speech act theory, particularly the expressive speech act theory by Leech and Norrick to analyse the discourse. The objective of this study is the researcher wants to find out the expressive speech act said by the prominent character in the film entitled Enola Holmes, the name of the prominent character is Enola Holmes. In other to find out the answer of this research, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative as amethod.Descriptive because the researcher trying to describe the expressive speech acts that found in this study and qualitative due to the fact that the data are in the form of utterances.There are 27 utterances that found in this study that consist of expressive speech act said by Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes film. The researcher also uses the script of Enola Holmes film as an object. The expressive speech acts that found in this research are; thanking, congratulating, welcoming, condoling, deploring, praising, blaming, and accusing. Whereas, the one and onlyexpressive speech act that not found in this study is an act of apologizing