I. P. W. Diatmika

Directive Illocutionary Acts in Hoppers: A Contextual Analysis of Refusal Possibility

Directive illocutionary acts encourage the hearer to perform a particular action. Although previous movie-based studies have examined how such acts are classified, most focus mainly on identifying directive types and rarely connect them systematically to situational context or to the hearer's possibility of refusal. Th...