摘要：Pragmatics is one of linguistics studies that is quite attractive to learn more about. There are manyaspects of pragmatics; one of them is dealing with speech acts. Speech acts consist of many categories; one ofthem is directive speech act. This study aims to identify the directive speech act performed in “Sleeping Beauty”movie. Likewise, it will find out how often the directive speech act performed and which type of directive speechact that are most frequently used in the movie. This study used qualitative method in which data collection isdone by watching the movie, analyzing the body movement and the dialogues of each character, reading thescript and library research. A total of 139 directive speech acts were successfully identified. The result ofanalysis showed that the directive speech act of ordering is the most frequently used in the movie (21,6%). Theleast frequently used directive speech act is inviting directive speech act (0,7%). The study also revealed theimportance of directive speech act in keeping the flow of storyline of the movie. This study is expected to givesome useful insights in understanding what directive speech acts is
关键词：pragmantics; directive speech act; sleeping beauty movie
