Compliment and its responses used by the characters of A Streetcar Named Desire plays scripts

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Putra, Yoga Noveta Venus Nur Ulyono (2023) Compliment and its responses used by the characters of A Streetcar Named Desire plays scripts. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabya.

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Abstract

This research studies compliments and their responses used by the character in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. The goal of this research is to find any types of topics of compliment used by characters in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. Furthermore, the research also describes what compliment responses are used by the characters in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire to reply to compliments by the addresses in the plays. A qualitative method was used in this research to interpret and understand the compliments and responses of characters in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. The researcher used a download script of A Streetcar Named Desire to describe and analyze the topic of compliments and responses used by characters. This research used Wolfson's theory about the compliment. There are topics of personal appearance, the topic of possession, the topic of general ability, and the topic of specific-act ability. The writer uses Wolfson's theory to analyze what's types of compliments used by characters in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. As a result, the researcher finds all types of compliments used by the characters in plays, with the most compliment types using the general ability type 7 times. Lastly, the research also used Herbert's classification to analyze responses to compliments used by characters in the play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. Based on Herbert's classification, the researcher finds 8 of 12 types from Herbert's classification about compliment responses. The writer hopes this research can be useful and be conducted more deeply and in a different approach because compliments are part of a speech act that humans usually use in their daily lives. Based on research, the writer suggests researching compliments based on gender, age, religion, etc.