An Analysis of Polite Request Strategies Used by The characters in The Fault in Our Star Movie Subtitles

khurun'in Nur Faizah, 2813123095 (2016) An Analysis of Polite Request Strategies Used by The characters in The Fault in Our Star Movie Subtitles. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Faizah, Khurun’in Nur. Student Registered Number. 2813123095. 2016.An Analysis of Polite Request Strategies Used by The Characters in The Fault in Our Star Movie Subtitles. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Departement. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr.sukarsono, M.Pd. Key Words: Directive Act, Request Strategies, Politeness Strategy Requestive acts are used to get greatest attention from listener in communication. Through requestive acts the speaker utterances make hearer do something. Request strategy as one of pragmatic phenomena proves the ability of speakers not only in the language but also in applying the language in context. From the background above, the researcher intended to study on how request strategy happened by the native speakers then the researcher wants to apply the pragmatics study because in fifth semester the researcher has followed the pragmatics class and movie subtitle class. As the coming teacher, the researcher will use movie as media on teaching so, by using movie subtitles the English learners can understand about pragmatics such as speech act and politeness strategy easily. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) what are the request strategies done by the characters in The Fault in Our Star movie subtitles? 2) What are the polite strategies used by the characters to express requests in the fault in our star movie subtitles? The purpose of this study were to: 1) know the request strategies done by the character’s in The Fault in Our Star movie subtitles, 2) know the polite strategies used by the characters to express requests in The Fault in Our Star movie subtitles. The research design in this study was content analysis design with qualitative approach. The researcher used script of movie subtitles as subject of research. The step of data collection by watching the movie and reading the script of movie subtitles. The researcher classifies the phrases in the script of movie subtitles by encoding or noting those phrases which are included into request strategy. From the compiled data, then the researcher will write her analysis. Meanwhile, the data source of this research was The Fault in Our Star movie subtitles script. In this study, the data obtained from analyzing utterances in The Fault in Our Star movie subtitles and selecting the utterances consisting of request strategy and politeness strategy. In analyzing the data, the researcher takes some steps were familiarizing, organizing, coding, interpreting and presenting.The results showed the characters of The Fault in Our Star mostly used mood derivable as the strategy of delivering the request that were 41 utterances used mood derivable, 3 utterances used explicit performative, 15 utterances used hedged performative, 7 utterances used obligation statement, 12 utterances used want statement, 7 utterances used suggestory formulae, 21 utterances used query preparatory, 6 utterances used strong hints, 3 utterances used mild hints. Then, the researcher also interpreted the most politeness used in The Fault in Our Star Movie Subtitles was bald on record which 48 utterances used bald on record, 28 utterances used positive politeness, 30 utterances used negative politeness and 9 utterances used off record. Because all the characters mostly employed bald on-record to realize his/her request. So in this analysis, it could be seen from the greatest amount of politeness strategy used by all the characters are bald on record.

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