The Use of Request Strategies in the Movie The Proposal
This research aims to investige the requests used in the movie The Proposal. In particular, it attempts to identify and classify the request head acts and external modification delivered by the characters of the movie. The data used in this research are utterances containing request strategies. Thes...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed |
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
2014
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| Online Access: | https://repository.ugm.ac.id/131887/ http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=72397 |
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| Institution: | Universitas Gadjah Mada |
| Summary: | This research aims to investige the requests used in the movie The
Proposal. In particular, it attempts to identify and classify the request head acts
and external modification delivered by the characters of the movie. The data used
in this research are utterances containing request strategies. These data, then, are
classified and analyzed using theory of the request strategies proposed by Blum-
Kulka and Olshtain (1984). The results show that there are 75 utterances
containing request strategies, classified based on nine types of the request head
acts and seven types of external modifications that modify the head acts. It is also
found that direct request by means of mood derivable was the most preferred
strategy in expressing request head act. Futhermore, precusors is the most
commonly external modification used by the characters to get the hearer�s
attention to fulfill something requested.
Key words: context, speech acts, request head acts, external modifications |
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