An analysis of indirectness employed by the main character in the movie “easy a”  (a pragmatic approach)

Ekawati, Natalia Desy

× This research focuses on indirectness employed by the main character and the other characters in the film entitled “Easy A”. This study aims to find out the kinds of indirectness performed in the movie entitled “Easy A”, the motives to use indirectness employed by the characters, and how the interlocutor understands indirectness used in the conversation. This research belongs to descriptive-qualitative research that refers to the method to formulate the conclusion by collecting, classifying, and interpreting the data of the research. The sources of the data of the research are the movie entitled “Easy A” and its movie script found from the internet. This research focused on the conversation containing indirectness between the main character and the other characters in the movie entitled “Easy A” as the data. This research applies purposive sampling technique. Overall, there are 24 data of indirectness. The research findings show that there are two kinds of indirectness: implied meaning and mismatch of the structural forms of sentence with the original communicative function. The speaker who utters indirectness employs an implied meaning, or the mismatch of structural forms of sentence with the original communicative functions, or employing both of them. The analysis of the data shows that there is more implied meaning than the mismatch of structural forms of sentence with the original communicative function. The fact shows that 19 data represent implied meaning (79,17%), 5 data (20,83%) represent the mismatch of structural forms of sentence with the original communicative function. In regard with motives used by the character to employ indirectness, the researcher found four reasons including interestingness (20,83%), to force one’s message (25%), competing goal (25%), and politeness (29,17%). The response of the hearer is found that 18 data (75%) representing indirectness is responded relevant and 6 data (25%) has irrelevant response. This research is expected to be able to be used as additional knowledge and reference for students and other researchers, especially for those who are interested in linguistics study.

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Penulis Utama	:	Natalia Desy Ekawati
Penulis Tambahan	:	-
NIM / NIP	:	C0304038
Tahun	:	2012
Judul	:	An analysis of indirectness employed by the main character in the movie “easy a” (a pragmatic approach)
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Imprint	:	Surakarta - FSSR - 2012
Program Studi	:	S-1 Sastra Inggris
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Sumber	:	UNS-FSSR Jur. Sastra Inggris-C.0304038-2012
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Jenis Dokumen	:	Skripsi
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Link DOI / Jurnal	:	-
Status	:	Public
Pembimbing	:	1. Prof. Dr. Djatmika, M.A
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Fakultas	:	Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

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