Requesting strategies used by the main characters in Little Women Movie - Strategi permintaan yang digunakan oleh pemeran utama dalam Film Little Women

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Nurdina, Vani Dyah (2023) Requesting strategies used by the main characters in Little Women Movie - Strategi permintaan yang digunakan oleh pemeran utama dalam Film Little Women. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims to examine the requesting strategies used by the main characters in the Little Women movie. This study uses the theory of requesting strategies from Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984) and social factors using sociological variables from Brown and Levinson (1987). This study aims to find out what types of requesting strategies used by the main characters and how the social factors influence the types of request strategies chosen. Therefore, there are two problems in this study: (1) What are the types of requesting strategies used by the main characters in Little Women movie? (2) How do social factors influence the use of requesting strategies used by the main characters in Little Women movie? This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. The subjects of this study were four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) as the main characters in Little Women movie. The researcher collected data by downloaded the movie transcript of Little Women to analyze the types of requesting strategies and how social factors influence the main characters’ choice of request strategies. This study revealed that there are eight types of requesting strategies uttered by the main characters. The researcher found 52 utterances that contain requesting strategies. Eight types of request strategies, including; mood derivable, explicit performatives, locution derivable, scope statements, language specific suggestive formulas, references to preparatory conditions, strong hints and mild hints. Furthermore, the researcher found that social factors have a significant influence on the use of request strategies. There are three types of sociological variables that determined the influence of social factors, namely relative power, social distance and rank of imposition. Speakers who have higher power relations than listeners use the most direct request strategy, namely mood derivable. Meanwhile, speakers whose power relations are lower than listeners apply types of request strategies with the lowest level of threatening actions, such as mild hint strategy.