The Realization of Request in Conversational Fragments in Movie Entitled Twilight.

Nuraini, Yunia Rizta (2014) The Realization of Request in Conversational Fragments in Movie Entitled Twilight. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keyword: Request Strategy, Request Acts, Conversational Fragments, Speech Acts, Pragmatics. Language is the main key of communication. In using language, people talk differently in different situation with different listeners. However, communication depends not only on recognizing the meaning of words in every utterance but also recognizing what speakers mean by their utterances. Understanding the entire of social context in every sentence uttered is needed because every language produced is not as simple as its lexical meaning but also depends on the context. The study of contextual meaning is called pragmatics. This study pragmatically attempts to analyze request, that is an act by which a speaker asks the listener to do something for his interest so that it potentiallty infringes others. The main objective of this study is to discover kinds of request strategies used by the characters in the movie in a hope that the results of the study would indirectly explore the various forms of English used by native speakers to express one linguistic function, i.e. request. Thus, such a study would be of one valuable authentic teaching material for speaking class. The research problems of this study were: 1) what request strategy is employed by speakers in conversation in movie entitled Twilight? 2) What is the frequency of each types of request strategy employed by speakers in movie entitled Twilight? The purposes of this study were: 1) to know request strategy is employed by speakers in conversation in movie entitled Twilight and 2) to know the frequency of each types of request strategy employed by speakers in movie entitled Twilight. The research design of the study is descriptive quantitative survey which employs pragmatic analysis. It is intended to investigate those two research problems in relation to request strategies. The data are the utterances in conversation of Twilight movie that containing requestive acts. The data are taken from the script of Twilight movie along with their contexts derived from the movies scenes. This study found: 1) request strategy employed by the speakers are 141 utterances contain mood derivable strategy, 34 utterances contain obligation statements strategy, 19 utterances contain query preparatory strategy, 9 utterances contain want statement strategy, 8 utterances contain suggestory formulae strategy, 6 utterances contain strong hint strategy, 4 utterances contain mild hint vii strategy, and 3 utterances contain hedged performative. Yet, in this study, the researcher did not find any request conveyed by explicit performative strategy. 2) the frequency of each types of request strategy employed by the speakers are 63% for mood derivable, 15% for obligation statement, 8% for query preparatory, 4% for want statement, 4% for suggestory formulae, 3% for strong hint, 2% for mild hint, 1% for hedged performative and 0% for explicit performative. Based on the result of the study, the writer wants to give suggestions for the future researchers. The next researcher can conduct the research with the same topic but in different subject. The next researcher can use the students of university as the subject of the research. It might have different result because of cultural differences.

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