ABSTRAK This research focuses on the complaint expressions used by the characters in the film entitled Runaway Bride. This research is conducted to describe the strategies of complaining used by the characters in the movie “Runaway Bride”, to describe the functions of the act of complaining employed by the speakers, and to identify the...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research is a study of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility. This research is a descriptive qualitative research in which the researcher had to analyze the data and then describe it. The main source of data in this research are taken from the novel Sense and Sensibility, published by David Campbell Publisher in 1992....

ABSTRACT 2008. This research is conducted to find the types of requestive employed by the characters in the drama entitled “The Circle”, and to describe why the characters in the drama entitled “The Circle” deliver their request expression in term of sentence form. In collecting the data, the researcher employs purposive sampling. The...

ABSTRACT 2008. The purposes of this study are describing how the noun clauses in the novel The Summons by John Grisham are translated into Indonesian and finding out the level of accuracy and readability of translation. It is a descriptive method using the technique of collecting, classifying the data and drawing conclusion based on data...

ABSTRACT 2008. The research describes real phenomena of children with special needs in America through analyzing a non-fiction, Twilight Children. Twilight Children by Torey Hayden is the latest non-fiction of her that is very popular. Cassandra, the child with the special needs in Twilight Children shows the real condition with the symptoms...

ABSTRACT 2008. The KID is the popular artifact that reflects many beliefs and values among the society, the film itself is comedy genre that shows the important of the family, and content of beliefs and values as a popular artifact. The research dig up the beliefs and values on the popular artifact, in this thesis the researcher chose The KID...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research is aimed firstly, to explain the aspects that challenge the traditional myth of romantic love as reflected in Brokeback Mountain. Secondly, to describe the countertype of American “cowboy” as reflected in the “cowboy” figure in the movie. This research applies descriptive qualitative research. The main...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research was conducted to identify the strategy of requesting employed by characters of the movie Winnie the Pooh “Pooh’s Heffalump movie” and the politeness strategy applied in the request expression in this movie. I classified the strategies of request based on Anna Trosborg’s classification. Further, Geoffrey...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research focuses on the compliments used by the characters in the film entitled Sweet November. This research is conducted to describe the types of topics of compliment employed by the characters in the film entitled Sweet November, the functions of each type of topics of compliment, and also the compliment responses...

ABSTRACT 2008. The research was conducted based on American Studies framework to analyze youth culture icon in Hippies era by choosing one of the American legendary rock superstars: Jimi Hendrix. To find Jimi Hendrix’s iconic status, the researcher traced and gathered the information of the history of, not only political, but also musical...