Compensation Strategies Applied in The Terminal Movie: A Study of Pragmatics
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2018-08-14
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This thesis is entitled “Compensation Strategies Applied in The Terminal Movie”. The objectives of this research are to describe violations maxims found in a movie and to analyze compensation strategies that are applied in communication by the speaker and the hearer in The Terminal movie. The data are taken from The Terminal movie that is about a Krakozian who is visiting the U.S. that is not permitted to enter the U.S. because of a problem of his passport. The research uses qualitative descriptive method. The theory is taken from George Yule (1996) which is about cooperative principles and violation maxims. Also, it is used the theory of Philip Riley (2007) that is about compensation strategies. It is said that there are four kinds of compensation strategies. The result of this research shows that there are four types of violation maxims and four compensation strategies that are applied in The Terminal movie. Violation maxims of quantity and relation are found a lot in the movie. Also, the most dominant strategy applied in The Terminal movie is the collaborative strategy of checks.
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compensation strategies, The Terminal Movie, Tidak ada keyword