1 | Page EXPRESSIVE ACTS OF CHARACTERS’ UTTERANCES IN THE AFTERMATH MOVIE Hendra, Hendra 1* Universitas Putera Batam (UPB), Batam, Indonesia pb171210011@upbatam.ac.id Ambalegin, Ambalegin 2 Universitas Putera Batam (UPB), Batam, Indonesia Ambalegin@puterabatam.ac.id Abstract The researchers conducted the descriptive qualitative research to analyze the expressive acts types. This research used The Aftermath 2019 movie as the data source and data were utterances that characters produced to show their emotions to the hearers. The researchers took the data by using observational method and note-taking. The researchers did not appear in the movie and data were collected by also writing down. In analyzing data, pragmatic identity method and pragmatic competence- in equalizing were used. It was analyzed with the theory of expressive acts by Searle and Vanderveken (1985). The result showed the characters said all expressive acts types. There were 59 data found in the utterances. One data of congratulate, 14 data of apologize, one data of welcome, 15 data of thank, 14 data of greet, seven data of complain, and seven data of compliment. Based on the result, thank was dominant because the characters commonly used this type to show their feelings. The characters frequently expressed gratitude because the speakers got good benefits from the listeners Keywords: Expressive Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Pragmatics 1. INTRODUCTION A speaker and hearer cannot be separated from language. It is the tool for people to communicate one another and messages are delivered by using language. The communication tool for people to communicate is language (Ricca & Ambalegin, 2022), In establishing communication, speaker and hearer use language, but speaker and hearer should understand what is said. A speaker generally has additional intention from what is directly produced and the meaning is found by a hearer (Birner, 2013). The meaning is interpreted from context that takes part in the utterance. Pragmatics studies the contextual meaning and it involves expressive acts