Commanding acts performed by the main characters in “Little Women” movie

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Ilmiyah, Rodlotul (2021) Commanding acts performed by the main characters in “Little Women” movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims at analyzing commanding acts and the responses toward the commands in the “Little Women” movie. There are two statements of problems to be answered in this study, (1) What are the types of commanding acts performed by the main characters in the “Little Women” movie, (2) How are the responses of the interlocutors after the commanding acts are performed by the main characters. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data of this research. The descriptive method was applied in this research to analyze the utterances of the main characters and the interlocutors through the transcriptions of the “Little Women” movie. The data were collected by first downloading and printing the movie subtitle and then watching the movie while highlighting the utterances in the transcription of the movie which indicates commanding acts performed by the main characters and the responses of the main characters’ interlocutors. Then, the researcher analyzed the data by identifying types of commands and the responses toward commands by applying codes, and then classifying and describing the data. The result of the study shows that all types of commands (direct command and indirect command) are found in the movie. The type of command most frequently used by the main characters in the movie is the direct command. The direct commands are often used by the main characters because the main characters mostly perform the commands to the interlocutors who have equal status as the main characters. While the indirect commands are rarely used by the main characters because they only use the indirect commands in certain situations, such as when the listener has a higher status than the speaker in which the indirect commands are performed to make the commands sound polite and soft. Then, the result of the second research question shows that there are three responses given by the interlocutors in responding to the main characters’ commands. They are hearer is doing something, hearer stops doing something, and hearer rejects. The hearer is doing something and the hearer stops doing something are the responses that are dominantly used by the main characters’ interlocutors because the main characters’ interlocutors mostly fulfill the speakers’ commands. While the hearer rejects becomes the lowest frequency among the other responses. The listener usually rejects the speaker’s command for a reason, such as when the listener is angry toward the speaker, so the listener doesn’t want to fulfill the speaker’s command.