ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE AND PRAGMATIC IDENTITY: A SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF GLINDA’S UTTERANCES IN WICKED: PART ONE (2024)
Keywords:
Illocutionary Act, Speech Act Theory, Pragmatics, Cinematic Discourse, ATLAS.tiAbstract
The pragmatic aspects of Glinda's language use in Wicked: Part One (2024) are examined in this study, with a particular emphasis on how her statements fit into Searle's (1979) taxonomy of illocutionary acts. As one of the film's primary figures, Glinda exhibits a discursive complexity through which her social identity, emotional maturation, and interpersonal techniques are built. Utilizing qualitative content analysis supported by ATLAS.ti software, the research identifies and categorizes her speech acts into five illocutionary types: assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. The results show that Glinda's speech serves to performatively alter social connections, assert authority, and negotiate ideological positions in addition to conveying information. From a total of 288 utterances, the most frequently occurring illocutionary act was assertive (48.26%), followed by directive (36.81%), expressive (10.42%), commissive (3.82%), and declarative (0.69%). This article contributes to the junction of linguistic pragmatics and character discourse analysis in cinematic texts, demonstrating how illocutionary force might index character identity and relational power in fictional tales.
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