Anger Expression In Speeches Of Male And Female Characters In The Film Entitled The Butterfly Effect

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Foda Anggraeni Ardi - C1307005 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

2011. Thesis: English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. This research was conducted to know about the forms of anger expression in speeches of male and female characters in the film The Butterfly Effect. It is also carried out to explain the characters response toward the anger and to know the reason of the characters in choosing the forms of anger. This research used pragmatics approach. It is descriptive qualitative research, which takes total sampling technique. The data of this research were the dialogues in the film entitled The Butterfly Effect that contains anger expressions. They were classified by using Mac Le Mouse’s classification of types of anger. The findings of the research show that there are two main forms of anger expression namely direct form of anger expression 10 data (41,67 %) and indirect forms of anger expression 14 data (58,33 %). While for the types and distribution of anger, the most dominant of the data is indirect declarative verbal anger (16, 66%), the second dominant is direct imperative verbal anger (12,5%). The third dominants are direct declarative verbal anger, direct imperative behavioral anger, indirect imperative verbal anger, indirect imperative behavioral anger and indirect interrogative behavioral anger (8, 33%). 1 Mahasiswa Jurusan Sastra Inggris dengan NIM C1307005 2 Dosen Pembimbing The last dominants are direct declarative deliberate anger, direct declarative self inflicted anger, direct interrogative verbal anger, indirect declarative verbal anger, indirect declarative retaliatory anger, indirect interrogative self-inflicted anger and indirect interrogative passive anger (4,17%). In addition, this research also employs gender classification as the data of the research, there are 1 data between female to female, 5 data between female to male, 14 data between male to male and 4 data between male to female. The second finding is the response of the male and female characters toward the expression of anger in the film entitled The Butterfly Effect. They are expression responses, which have 17 data (70, 83%), and suppression responses which have 7 data (29, 17%). The third finding is the reasons of the characters in choosing the form of anger expression in the film entitled The Butterfly Effect. This expression function is to show annoyance and resentful, to make statement or command, and to show politeness and social power.