A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS ON COMMANDING UTTERANCES IN THE GREAT DEBATERS MOVIE MANUSCRIPT
This research studies about commanding utterances in The Great Debaters Movie Manuscript. The objectives of the research are to describe the linguistic form and the implicature (implied meaning) of commanding utterances. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The method of...
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13577/ |
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| Summary: | This research studies about commanding utterances in The Great Debaters Movie
Manuscript. The objectives of the research are to describe the linguistic form and
the implicature (implied meaning) of commanding utterances.
The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The method of
collecting data is observation and analyzing document by selecting the
commanding utterances which can be found in The Great Debaters Movie
Manuscript. To achieve the objectives of the study, the writer identifies the data
based on the linguistic form and describes the implicature.
The result of the data analysis shows that there are three forms of commanding
utterances, namely declarative sentence (32.4%), imperative sentence (64.7%) and
interrogative sentence (2.9%). Meanwhile the implicature is classified into two:
Conventional Implicature which includes ordering (38.2% ), requesting (14.7%)
and Conversational Implicature which covers Ordering (20.6%), prohibiting
(11.8%), requesting (5.9%) and suggesting (8.8%). |
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