Istiasih, Nita (2013) A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT OF APOLOGY USED BY THE CHARACTERS IN MAID IN MANHATTAN. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The objectives of this research are (1) to reveal the types of offences motivating the characters to express apology in Maid in Manhattan movie, (2) to reveal how the characters express their apologies in Maid in Manhattan movie, and (3) to describe the social function of the apology used by the characters in Maid in Manhattan movie. This research used descriptive-qualitative method in which content analysis is used to interpret and analyze the data. The data of this research were utterances produced by the characters in Maid in Manhattan containing speech act of apology. The data were supported by the context in which the utterances are spoken. The key instrument of this research was the researcher herself and the secondary instruments were data cards and data sheets. The trustworthiness of the data was gained through triangulation, i.e. by theories and by researchers. The results of this research are as follows. First, there are four types of offences motivating the apology committed by the characters in Maid in Manhattan. They are instances of inconvenience, infringements on space, infringements on time, and infringements on possessions. The most dominant type is instances of inconvenience. It happens because the movie mostly sets in the hotel. Here, the instances of inconvenience are mostly committed by the employees of the hotel who serve the guest in inadequate services. Second, there are five apology strategies used by the characters in Maid in Manhattan movie. They are minimizing the degree of offence with the sub-strategies of minimizing, querying pre-condition and blaming someone else, acknowledging of responsibility, explaining or accounting, expressing of apology, and offering of repair. In the application of the strategies, the characters mostly apply the expressing of apology since it is the simplest form used with performative verb. Last, there are five types of social functions of apology. They are implicating contrition, asking to be forgiven, showing good manners, assuaging the addressee’s wrath, and getting off the hook. Getting off the hook is mostly applied by the characters since the purpose of the apology is to get off the rigidity between the apologizer and the offended person.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Maid in Manhattan, speech act, apology, pragmatic analysis |
| 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: | 22 Jun 2015 07:07 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 23:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/21115 |
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