REQUEST STRATEGIES IN THE MOVIE DESPICABLE ME

KHASANAH PALUPI AKBA, Thomas J. P. Sembodo, S.S., M.A.

2017 | Skripsi | S1 SASTRA INGGRIS

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi dan mengklasifikasikan request strategies seperti yang ditemukan dalam film animasi Despicable Me. Ucapan yang mengandung request di dalam film digunakan sebagai data penelitian. Ada 65 data yang ditemukan dari film tersebut. Data dikumpulkan dengan menonton film dan menggunakan file subtitle. Data tersebut kemudian diklasifikasikan ke dalam sejumlah kategori berdasarkan Blum-Kulka & Olshtain - Requests and Apologies. Dengan klasifikasi ini, trends dari request strategies, yang merupakan frekuensi masing-masing request strategy, diidentifikasi. Request strategies yang paling sering digunakan yang ditemukan dalam film adalah direct strategy dengan 41 kejadian (63.06% dari jumlah data), sedangkan strategi yang paling jarang digunakan adalah conventionally indirect strategy dengan 10 kejadian (15.38% dari total jumlah data). Sebagai kesimpulan, direct request strategies adalah request strategies yang paling sering digunakan oleh karakter dalam Despicable Me sementara conventionally indirect request strategies adalah yang paling jarang digunakan.

This research aimed to identify and classify request strategies as found in an animation movie Despicable Me. The utterances containing requests in the movie were used as the data. There were 65 data found from the movie. The data were collected by watching the movie and making use of the subtitle file. The data were then classified into a number of categories based on Blum-Kulka & Olshtain’s requests and apologies classification. With this classification the trend of the request strategies, which was the frequency of each strategy, was suggested. The most frequently used request strategy found in the movie was direct strategy with 41 occurrences (63.06% of the total number of the data), while the least frequently used strategy was conventionally indirect strategy with 10 occurrences (15.38% of the total number of the data). In conclusion, direct request strategies was the most frequent request strategies preferred by the characters in Despicable Me while conventionally indirect request strategies was the least frequent one.

Kata Kunci : Despicable Me movie, Request strategies, Request strategies classifications, Trends, Familiarity, Social status