Compliment And Compliment Responses Used By The Characters In “Pretty Woman”

Wahyuningsih, Susi and , Prof.Dr.Endang Fauziati, M.Hum and , Mauly Halwat Hikmat, Ph.D (2017) Compliment And Compliment Responses Used By The Characters In “Pretty Woman”. Thesis thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

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Abstract

Compliment and compliment responses are ussually used in daily activities which refer to directive speech act. It is because the speaker gives the attention on part of action to addressee. The study is focussed on what kinds of compliment and compliments responses occur in the film “Pretty Woman”. Furthermore, this present paper will try to find out how the compliment and compliments respons expressed in that film with identifying the type of compliment and the topic of compliment responses. Beside that the paper aims to describe what politeness strategies are involved in that film used by the characters. There are some reasons for taking this film as the data source. Firstly, it is well known as romantic film that is best film with the actors Julia Robert and Richard Gere. Secondly, in that dialog we can find a lot of compliment and compliments responses that are applied in various situation. In this qualitative research, this research describes topic of compliment, type of compliment response, and politeness strategy based on Brown and Levinson theory that is used by the characters in Pretty Woman movie. The result shows that first, there are three topics of compliment were used by the characters. They are topic of appearance, topic of capability and compliment on possession. The most common topic of compliment used by the characters are topic of appearance. The second is the type of compliment response into twelve categories that is appreciation token, comment acceptance, praise upgrade, comment history, reassignment, return, scale down, question, disagreement, qualification, no acknowledgement, request interpretation, and the most common type of compliment response used by the characters are no acknowledgement. The third is in this analysis the writer analyze politeness strategies using four types of politeness strategies from Brown and Levinson. They are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Then the most common politeness strategies used by characters are politeness strategies. Departing with the finding, discussion and conclusion, the writer suggest for English teacher can use many other kinds of theory to show the expression of compliment, compliment response then dealing with politeness strategy in processing teaching and learning. For students can apply pragmatic study especially speech act that they can practice interpersonal or transactional talks or speeches in real situation. The writer also recommends for the next researches to increase variety of research. Keywords; compliment, compliment responses,politeness strategy.

Item Type:	Karya ilmiah (Thesis)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	compliment, compliment responses,politeness strategy.
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Pasca Sarjana > Magister Pengkajian Bahasa
Depositing User:	Susi Wahyuningsih
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2017 06:00
Last Modified:	16 Aug 2017 06:00
URI:	http://eprints.ums.ac.id/id/eprint/55702

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