This research attempts to find out the strategies of the flouting maxims used by the speakers in the film entitled Hitch, the situation when the maxims are flouted in conversation and the intention of the speaker in flouting the maxims in their utterance. This research uses the pragmatic approach. It is a descriptive research which takes total...

This research is intended to analyze the use of compliment expressions in the film entitled Bridesmaids using Wolfson’s classification on types of topics of compliments, Wolfson’s classification of compliment functions, the summary of functions of compliment by Noriko Ishihara, and Herbert’s theory of compliment’s responses. The objectives...

The analysis of the research focuses on the readabilities of the vocative texts found in “Splish Splosh Why Do We Wash”. The purpose of this research is to find how readable the vocative text in “Splosh Why Do We Wash” and what factors are affecting readabilities. In order to determine the readability, this research was done using...

This research uses Pragmatics approach. It is a qualitative descriptive research, which took total sampling technique in collecting data. The data of this research were taken from the dialogues of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows which contains address forms. Firstly, the data were divided based on Brown and Ford theory about address forms and...

This research focuses on analysis of translation techniques applied in translating football terms in the movie GOAL!: The Dream Begins and the quality of translation in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. This research is descriptive qualitative study. The purpose of this research are: (1) To identify the...

This research focuses on the analysis of translation strategies applied in translating simile in the classic novel entitled Wuthering Heights which is translated by two translators and the analysis of translation quality in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. This research is a descriptive qualitative study. The purposes of the...

This research was conducted to describe the types of request expressions employed by the characters in the film 27 Dressesbased on Trosborg’s theory and the politeness strategy of Brown and Levinson as the choice of the characters to express requests. The research used pragmatics approach with the request expressions as the scope of the...

2013. This research attempts to find out the kinds of non-observance of the maxims employed by the characters in the movie entitled “The Ides of March”, to find out the reasons why the characters in the movie entitled “The Ides of March” employ the non-observance of the maxims. This research applied qualitative descriptive method with...

This research focuses on the analysis of the translation of metaphorical expressions in the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth into Indonesian in Perjalanan ke Pusat Bumi. The objectives of this research are (1) to find out the types of metaphorical expression,(2)to find out the translation strategies applied by the translator in translating...