A Study of Communicative Function of Interjection in Angry Bird Movie

This study aims to explain the communicative function of interjection found
in Angry Bird movie produced by Sony Pictures Image works in 2016. This study
purposes to analyze the concept of interjection in both of the types and the
communicative functions found in Angry Bird movie. The writer uses the theory
proposed by Ameka
In addition, this study used the descriptive qualitative since the data are in
the form of word especially from the utterance rather than in the form of number.
The source of data are the utterance from the characters in Angry Bird movie. The
data of this study are the utterances that contain the interjection word. The data are
collected by using content analysis method.
In this study, the writer found 40 data of interjection. The writer found 38
data belong to primary interjection and 8 data belong to secondary interjection.
Based on all of those data, the writer classified 23 data contain expressive function,
10 data contain conative function, and 7 data contain phatic function. The result of
this study revealed that the expressive function of interjection is frequently
occurred. This study showed that the main communicative function of interjection
is used to express the speaker’s mental state and emotion.
Key Words: Pragmatics, Interjection, Types, Communicative Function