Women's Strategies of Requests As Depicted in The Little Women Movie

Rifka, Sukma Putri (2022) Women's Strategies of Requests As Depicted in The Little Women Movie. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

The study of request strategies used by female characters in Little Women in their daily lives is discussed in this study. This study aims to find the types of request strategies and the possible factors in the use of strategies carried out by female characters in the Little Women film. The data taken for analysis was collected using one of the methods proposed by Sudaryanto (1993), namely free-to-play observation. The data were analyzed using the theory of request strategy proposed by Blum-Kulka (1989) and the theory of factors influencing the use of strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The results of the analysis are presented descriptively in this study. The female character in Little Women uses nine types of request strategies when asking for something, namely: (1) mood derivable (25.45%), (2) hedged performatives (2.72%), (3) performatives (1.81 %), (4) obligation statements (11.81%), (5) want statements (12.72%), (6) preparatory queries (13.69%), (7) suggestory formulae (22.72%) , (8) strong hints (4,54%), (9) mild hints (4,54%). This study shows that the dominant type of request strategy used by all female characters in the film Little Women in daily conversation is mood derivable as much as 28 times (25.45%). The female characters in Little Women tend to reinforce their request sentences in everyday conversations to make listeners do what they ask and to show how clear and polite they are when making requests. In addition, this study found two factors that influence the use of these strategies used by female characters in Little Women when asking for something, namely payoffs (40.94%) and relevant circumstances (59.06%). The most dominant factor used by female characters in Little Women is relevant circumstances as many as 65 (59.06%). It was concluded that the female characters in Little Women wanted to enhance and emphasize their request to strengthen the statement they had mentioned in their request sentence by using relevant circumstances.

Item Type: Thesis (Diploma)
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Ike Revita, M. Hum.
Uncontrolled Keywords: request strategies, request speech act strategy, women’s strategy
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: s1 sastra inggris
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2022 03:31
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2022 03:31
URI: http://scholar.unand.ac.id/id/eprint/101752

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