ABSTRACTThe research was conducted to analyze indirectness employed by the characters in the movie entitled ‘Mean Girls’. The research explored how the characters perform indirectness, the types of speech acts employing indirectness, the factors influence indirectness, and the reasons of using indirectness in this movie.The research...

ABSTRACTThe research focuses on the questions or interrogative forms which have the functions as directives employed by the characters in the movie entitled Sherlock Holmes. This research was conducted to describe the functions of directive speech acts in interrogative forms employed by the characters in the movie, to find out how the characters...

ABSTRACTThe first objectives of this research are to describe revenge and forgiveness in moral philosophical point of view as it is seen from utilitarian theory. The second objective is to describe the way Nicholas Sparks portrays revenge and forgiveness morally with elaboration to his idea of both attitude in Christian value. Seen from moral...

ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to analyze the elliptical question found in the novel entitled Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The objectives of this research are(1) to find out the types of the elliptical questions (2) to describe thetranslation techniques applied by the translator in translating elliptical question in the novel entitled...

ABSTRACTThis research is focused to find out the translation techniques which are applied in translating colloquial expressions, and to assess the accuracy and acceptability of the colloquial expressions in the subtitle film We’re the Millers.This research is a descriptive qualitative research. There are 74 data colloquial expressions in the...

ABSTRACTThis research was conducted to analyze the power struggle of Obama through Obama’s interviews by different countries. The interviews are from the videos entitled,(1) “Barack Obama’s CNN interview-His Diminished Expectation”, (2)“Barack Obama’s TV-Interview US-President Obama with German...

This research was conducted to know the use of approbation maxim strategieswhich are uttered by the characters in the novel entitled Five On A Treasure Island. Moreover, this research was made to know the speakers? reason in relation to politeness principle when they use such a particular strategy in expressing the objective of their...

The research focuses on the understanding of 20 students in SMP N 9 Surakarta class one towards negative form in grammar based on tenses. There are three tenses applied in this research; present continuous tense, simple present tense and past tense which is divided into two (regular verbs and irregular verbs). Besides that, there are also two...

This research examined interpersonal meaning in two editorial texts which concerned telephone tapping issue to Indonesian leader. The texts were published by international media from Indonesia and Australia, namely The Jakarta Globe and The Australian. The analysis was also carried out to discover the similarities and differences of interpersonal...

This research was conducted to find out the types of flouting maxims employed by the characters in the film Hell Baby. It is also carried out to identifyhow the characters employ the implicatures and to find out the reasons on flouting the maxims employed by the characters in the film entitled “Hell Baby”.This research is a descriptive...