Pradhika, Banu Adya (2014) A SOCIO-PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE IN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT USED BY THE CHARACTERS IN FREEDOM WRITERS. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This research is a socio-pragmatic study on grammatical features of vernacular English in relation to flouting maxims of cooperative principle in Freedom Writers. This research is aimed at investigating grammatical features of vernacular English and analyzing the flouting maxims of cooperative principles employed by the characters in Freedom Writers. This research employed descriptive qualitative research and were supported by quantitative method in presenting the occurrences of the data. The data of this research were utterances produced by the characters in Freedom Writers containing grammatical features of vernacular English and flouting maxims of cooperative principle. The key instrument of this research was the researcher himself and the secondary instruments were data sheets. The trustworthiness of the data was gained through triangulation, i.e. by theories and by researchers. The data were collected by note-taking. The findings of this research reveal two important points. First, there are three kinds of grammatical features of vernacular English employed by the characters in Freedom Writers. They are verbs, negatives and questions. In the application of the features, the male characters in Freedom Writers mostly employed verbs compared to other features. It shows that the characters, whether teenagers or adults, mostly used inappropriate constructions in using verbs in their conversation. Second, there are four kinds of flouting maxims of cooperative principle employed by the characters in Freedom Writers while speaking in vernacular English. They are flouting maxim of quantity, flouting maxim of quality, flouting maxim of relation, and flouting maxim of manner. The characters in Freedom Writers mainly used the flouting maxim of relation. In this movie, the characters often gave irrelevant statements by changing the topic of conversation and giving opinion from other perspectives.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Freedom Writers, grammatical features of vernacular English, flouting maxims of cooperative principle |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2015 02:32 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 22:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/19397 |
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