This analysis reveals how movies function as speech acts, suggesting they can influence society through performative declarations.
This paper aims to relate speech acts to movies by analyzing the discourse of movies inthe light of Austin's and Searle's notions of speech acts treating entire movies as singleutterances (/communicative acts/texts) spoken to the audience. Movie-utterances havebeen tested against Austin's and Searle 's criteria of speech acts (including their textualand contextual conditions), their performative formulae and classification of speechacts. In other words, it employs speech act approach to analyze the discourse of movies.It was found that movies fulfil all the criteria of speech acts and can be called movieacts (film-acts). Furthermore, it was found thatfilm-acts carry the force ofperformativedeclarations which makes them capable of bringing change in the society.
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