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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelMiscommunication or misunderstanding may happen in daily
conversation, especially in human relationship between man and woman.
Misunderstanding happens because both of them have different way of thinking
and different ability to accept and respond to the utterance well. For that reason,
the writer is interested in analyzing speech acts, especially the illocution and
perlocution of each speaker. Here, the writer wanted to find out the relation
between perlocution and the next speaker?s illocution that cause
misunderstanding. For the data, the writer chose ?The Break Up? because the
story was full of misunderstanding, especially between the two characters, Gary
and Brooke. She used the speech acts theory from Austin, Searle and Hurford and
Heasley. In collecting the data, she transcribed the film especially the scenes
which contain misunderstanding only. Then, she classified and identified the
illocution and perlocution of each utterance. After the analysis, the writer found
that there are many causes of misunderstanding between Gary and Brooke in the
film. It is because the illocution of the second speaker is not the same as the first
speaker?s perlocution. The writer concluded that people could minimize
miscommunication or misunderstanding especially between the couple by trying
to accept the couple?s utterances and respond the utterances well, so their
relationship become better and they can avoid the break up.