ABSTRACTThis thesis is about the violation of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle to create verbal humor in sitcom How I Met Your Mother(Season 1-4). The aims of this research are to find out the types of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle which create humor in the conversation, to analyze how both maxims of Cooperative...

ABSTRACTThis research is about comparison of two texts taken from presidential election debate of the United States in 2012 between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The purposes of this research are (1) to find out the employed attitudes in the text of United States Presidential Election Debate in 2012 between Obama and Romney regarding Obama’s...

This research was conducted to discover and compare the ideology of news texts published in The Jakarta Post and The Jakarta Globe websites after the first debate of presidential candidate during pre-election 2014. It was also executed to describe how the objectivity of the both media in serving the information to the readers.This research is...

This thesis deals with the use of politeness principles by Leech (1983) in the film Beauty and the Beast. The research was conducted to analyze the types of politeness principles executed by the characters. Moreover, this research was also executed to analyze the factors affecting the characters employ politeness principles, the goals of using...

ABSTRACTThis research is conducted to examine how documentary movie entitled SICKO constructs the irony of American healthcare and the derivation of political discourse in the United States. This movie is also released during the presidential campaign for 2008 which causes controversy in the society because the healthcare issue itself becomes one...

ABSTRACTThe aims of this research are to find out the types of transposition applied at declarative translation and to know the impacts of the transposition to the quality of declarative sentences translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability.This research used descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was taken from The Chronicles...

This research focuses on the analysis of translation techniques applied in translating the figurative language in song lyrics in The Lion King movie and the translation quality in terms of accuracy and acceptability.This research is descriptive qualitative study. The purposes of the research are (1) to describe the techniques used by the...

ABSTRACTThis research examined the interpersonal meaning of the editorial of The Jakarta Post entitled Endorsing Jokowi and The Jakarta Globe entitled The Political Process and Press Neutrality comprising with status, affect, and contact. It was also executed to describe the similarities and differences of the two media.This research was a...

ABSTRACTThis research focuses on the analysis of the compliments and compliment responses employed by the characters in the TV-series entitled Smallville: Season 1 Episodes 1-18. This research was conducted to find out the types of the topics of compliment, the functions of compliment, and the responses of the compliment expressed by the...

ABSTRACTThis research focuses on the analysis of positive politeness strategy employed by the characters in the story entitled Summer Term At St. Clare’s. This research is aimed to find out the kinds of positive politeness strategy which are used by the characters in the story and to examine the factors which influence the characters to...