Illocutionary Speech Act in “Hidden Figures” Movie in Perspective Gender Siska Putri 1, Rina Marnita 2 1,2 Faculty of Humanities,Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia siskaputrimugino.spss@gmail.com 1 , rmarnita65@gmail.com 2 Abstract Illocutionary speech act is one of the studies in sociolinguistics. This research discusses the illocutionary speech act in perspective gender. This research aims to find illocutionary speech acts used by both women and men in Hidden Figures movie and to find women's language features both women and men utterances in Hidden Figures film. The theories are by Searle and Lakkof. This research uses qualitative and descriptive methods. The data source is from the Hidden Figures movie was released in 2017. The data was analyzed in the movie transcript. The finding of this research states that there are two classifications of the illocutionary speech act used un the Hiden Figures movie. They are directive and expressive. Furthermore, there are women's speech features in women and men's utterances in the Hidden Figure film. Keywords: Illocutionary speech act, women language features. INTRODUCTION Pragmatics is a study of meaning concerning speech situations (Leech, 1993). Pragmatic also related to social called Sociopragmatics. Sociopragmatics is the use of language based on "the social context" or "social system" and "social background" as influencing language behavior (Leech 1993; Lavinson 1983). According to Yule(2006), the speech act is action through utterances with a specific label such as apology, gratitude, compliment, invitation, and promise. Illocutionary speech act is one of the discussed studies in sociopragmatic. Iillocutionary speech act is the function of the words which is uttered by the speaker, which has a certain (conventional) force (Austin; 1969). One of the social aspects of society is gender. Eckert and Ginet (2003) sex is biological categorization based primarily on reproductive potential, whereas gender is the social elaboration of biological sex. It means that gender does not speak of sex but is an aspect inherent in both men and women. For instance, in color, pink is tend to a woman's image, while black is a man's. Women's language sometimes shows their helplessness and weakness (Lakoff, 1975). According to Hymes in ., the context of situations consists of eight components in SPEAKING as an acronym. S: (Setting dan scene) setting refers to time and scene refers to P: (Participants) yakni pembicara, lawan bicara dan pendengar. E: ( Ends: purpose and goal) A: (Act sequences) K: (Key; tone or spirit of act) 247