An illocutionary and perlocutionary acts analysis of Kevin's dialogue with DID in 'Split'(2016)

Assertive Directive Commissive Expressive Dennis 70 21 9 11 Barry 20 4 6 11 Patricia 31 12 6 5 Hedwig 53 15 6 9 Orwell 0 3 0 0 Jade 7 2 0 1 The Beast 12 0 0 2 Kelvin 4 4 0 0 Denis Assertive I choose you first. That must be so lonely. The food is waiting. To make it easy, I've color-coded these. Patricia has reminded me that I was sent to get you for a reason. That you are sacred food. I thought I lost you.  You like to make fun of us.  But we're more powerful than you think.  Look at your sweater. It's ruined. It's dirty.  I'm trying to be good.  She will be kept separate.  Clothes you got all dirty from the dust.  It's about depth and curves...  It's kind of like a chenille sweater-dress.  I emailed you.  I told them that I wanted to spend the session with you today.  Dr. Fletcher, it's Barry....

Did you know?  Perlocutionary acts has an impact to the plot!  Picture via   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4972582/mediaviewer/rm3071085056        This type of speech acts focus more on the effect of speaker’s utterances on the hearers to see the speaker’s reactions. In this section, we will take a look at the characters that interact with the MPD protagonist the most: Casey and Dr. Fletcher!   🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬🎬🎥🎬🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬 🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬 🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬🎥🎬 🎥 1. Casey- Hedwig Picture via  http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2017/01/split-this-uneven-thriller-should-do.html                 From the beginning of the story, Casey and her friends are abducted and do not know anything about Kevin until he keeps changing his identities when he wants to talk to them. One of personalities that can be a gear to drive the plot is Hedwig.     How this affect the plot?...

Frequency of Each Illocutionary Act of Each Character This is the overall result from every character in Kevin’s body. As you can see from the graph, the characters use Assertive mostly because it is the easiest way to continue the whole story within 2 hours. So, we will focus more on Directive, Commissive and Expressive ,and talk in details of each characters. Dennis Dennis is the main character who normally used assertive to run the story. But you can see that it followed by the used of Directive around19%. This is because he had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He obsessed with cleanliness. He always orders other people to clean by using direct speech. Barry Another important identity is Barry. We can see from the pie chart that the second most used speech act is Expressive (the green one). The reasons this identity expresses a lot of expressive speech acts are that he is a fashionista and the representation of LGBTQ...