Dewi, Suci Mustika (2022) Face Threatening Acts Analysis Of Directive Acts In The Novel I Was Born For This By Alice Oseman. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN PONOROGO.
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MUSTIKA DEWI, SUCI. 2022. Face Threatening Acts Analysis of Directive Acts in the Novel I Was Born For This By Alice Oseman. Thesis, English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty, State Institute of Islamic Studies Ponorogo. Advisor Wiwin Widyawati, M.Hum.
Key Words: Face Threatening Acts, Directive Acts, Novel
Communication is part of verbal interaction which takes an essential point in every human social life to convey arguments and ideas. There are various aspects of communication; one of them is speaking politely. Many people these days are ignorant about politeness during communication. That is why linguistic politeness helps people create good communication with the interlocutor and make the utterance sounds more polite concerning to minimize the FTA. At this point, using specific ways or strategies could also help people run the conversation, such as when the speaker is performing a directive speech. By applying the politeness strategy through communication especially when the speaker use directive acts, the speaker tried to build such a good relationship and avoid future conflict may occur after the conversation. According to the urgency of politeness usage also the intencity of people doing the face threatening acts in communication, the researcher conducting this research attempts to analyze the face threatening acts performed by the speaker in the novel by Alice Oseman entitled “I Was Born For This” which focused on the use of directive acts by the speaker to express their intention during the communication. I Was Born For This is a children's book that achieved the award of Unity By Pop Award 2018 as Young Adult Book of The Year. This novel talks about the darkest side of fandom euphoria, how anxiety can stop someone from doing something, and defines what is essential to life.
The researcher outlined two problems underlying this research, specifically: (1) What are the types of directive acts used by the characters in the Alice Oseman novel, entitled "I Was Born for This" to perform directive illocutionary acts function? (2) How is the use of face threatening acts by the characters in the Alice Oseman novel, entitled “I Was Born for This” to perform directive illocutionary acts function?
This research use a systematic and deep description of phenomena based on the theoritacal framework which lead the resracher to present the data collection and data analysis in such detailed explanation. Thus, this research was done by applying library approach along with descriptive qualitative as the research design. During the process of data collection, the data were collected through documentation and in this research the researcher played a role as a single data collector. The researcher used the theory of speech acts proposed by Searle especially on the description of directive speech acts. Beside, the researcher also used Brown and Levinson’s 1987 theory which focused on the face threatening acts theory under the pragmatic study. These theories used by the researcher to find the types of directive acts and the use of face threatening acts by all the characters in the Alice Oseman novel, entitled I Was Born For This in performing directive illocutionary acts fucntion during the daily communication.
According to the data analysis of this research, the researcher finally found the answer to the two problem statement that there is five directive speech acts found in the Alice Oseman novel, entitled "I Was Born For This". They are (1) Commanding, (2) Requesting, (3) Suggestion, (4) Inviting, (5) Forbidding. The researcher also finds out that the characters in the novel does the face threatening acts either positive face or negative face in performing the directive illocutionary acts function. In this research, most of the characters in the Alice Oseman novel, entitled I Was Born For This perform directive illocutionary function of commanding and threaten the negative face of the hearer. Moreover, mostly used strategy by the characters to perform the face threatening acts is the bald on record. Means that the speaker attempted to achieve the efficiency in communication maximally and threaten the herer’s negative face.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate (S1)) |
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| Thesis Supervisor: | Wiwin Widyawati |
| Subjects: | 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2023 04:06 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2023 04:06 |
| URI: | http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/22393 |
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