ILLOCUTIONARY ACT USED BY SHERLOCK HOLMES IN “A GAME OF SHADOWS” MOVIE

People always communicate their ideas, feelings, or opinions through conversation. Conversation is the way to deliver the speaker’s meaning. This study concerns with the discussions of the speaker’s meaning. Particularly, the second dimension of speech acts that is illocutionary acts in A Game of Shadows movie. This study was intended to find out (1) sentence type, (2) underlying contexts behind the illocutionary acts used by main characters in A Game of Shadows movie. The descriptive qualitative was the research design of this study. The object of this study was the utterances between the main characters in A Game of Shadows movie. The instruments used in this study were non – participant observation and documentation. The result showed that declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences were three sentence types used by the main characters in A Game of Shadows movie. Statements were in the form of declarative sentences. Questions were in the form of interrogative sentence. Directives (orders, requests, warning, and suggestions) were in the form of imperative sentences. They were the underlying contexts behind the illocutionary acts used by main characters in A Game of Shadows movie. Besides that, predictions, questions, offers, promises, refusals, and directives (orders and suggestions) were the forms of declarative sentences. Suggestions and requests were in the interrogative form. Questions were in the imperative form. They were the underlying contexts behind the illocutionary acts used by main characters in A Game of Shadows movie.