Abstrak
The Use Of Address Forms In The Movie Forrest Gump (Sociopragmatics Approach)
Oleh :
Wisnu Kurniasari - C1307064 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa
The research analyzed the address forms employed by the characters in the movie
Forrest Gump. The analysis was aimed at identifying the types of address forms,
domain where each address form was used, and the factor influencing the use of
address forms.
This is a descriptive qualitative research, using a sociopragmatics approach. The
data in this research were all of address forms in the movie Forrest Gump. There
are 205 data were analyzed by using Brown and Ford’s (1990) concept and
Spolsky’s (1998) theory of domain.
Eleven types of address forms were found in the movie Forrest Gump. Type of
First Name is the most popular address form in the movie (93 occurrences).
Meanwhile, Title plus Full Name and Full Name are least popular used only once
throughout the movie. Then, there are 40 data belongs to Title, 15 data b elongs to
Title plus First Name, 12 data belongs to Title plus Last Name, 2 data belongs to
Title plus Name, 14 data belong to Last Name, 7 data belongs to Name, 16 data
belongs to Multiple Name, and then 4 data of No Name are employed by the
characters.
In terms of the domains where the address forms are used, there are four domains:
employment, education, friendship, and family domain. Friendship domain is
mostly used in this movie. There are 119 occurrences of address forms in
friendship domain. Then, 47 uses of address forms are found in employment
domain. The use of address form in family domain occurs in 30 cases. Last, there
are only nine cases of address forms in education domain.
This study also find that some factors that influence the use of certain address
forms include different power, formality, close relation, high solidarity, equal
status, and social distance.
This research explores the use of address forms in a movie. It is recommended
that other researchers conduct other studies about the address form employed by
the participants having different factors in order to reveal the realization of the use
of address form
