A PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS OF WARNING UTTERANCES ON COMPUTER’S GAME (ZUMA’S REVENGE)
This research deals with warning utterances in Zuma’s Revenge computer’s game. The research is aimed at describing sentence type and pattern, implicature and politeness strategies of warning utterances on computer’s game ( Zuma’s Revenge). The researcher employs the descriptive qualitative...
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2011
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| 总结: | This research deals with warning utterances in Zuma’s Revenge computer’s
game. The research is aimed at describing sentence type and pattern, implicature
and politeness strategies of warning utterances on computer’s game ( Zuma’s
Revenge).
The researcher employs the descriptive qualitative as the type of the
research. The data source of this research is the game Zuma’s Revenge. In
collecting the data, the writer uses documentation method and the steps are
playing the game of Zuma’s Revenge, taking note of sentences containing warning
utterances, l isting the data that are collected, and coding the data. The techniques
of analyzing data of this research are describing the sentence type by referring to
grammatical rules, analyzing the implicature based on context of pragmatics’
theory, and illuminating the politeness strategies by using the theory of politeness.
The result of the study shows that first, the sentence types of warning
utterances are: exclamatory sentence, declarative sentence, imperative sentence,
and interrogative sentence. The sentence pattern that is mostly used is Subject +
Predicate followed by Complement. Second, the implicature of warning utterances
covers conventional and conversational implicature. Third, the politeness
strategies of warning utterances are: bald on record, positive politeness, and
negative politeness strategy. |
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