ADDRESS TERMS IN THE LAKE HOUSE MOVIE

The phenomena of address term occur in The Lake House movie. This movie tells about the story of Kate Forster, a dedicated doctor who works with insanely time and Alex Wyler. Alex Wyler, an architect who bought a house in the edge of lake, which is also occupied by Kate Foster two years later. Kate left a message in the mail box; it turns out to connect the separate distance between those two years adrift. Interesting, how people are connected by a small mailbox at the same house but different in time. When they know each other through the correspondence deeply, then they fell in love. The writer sees the various address terms used occurs by the different social dimension behind them. The importance of discussing address terms in this movie is to explore how the characters establish a social interaction process by using the right term. Address term is an important since the right address terms show the social identities and social relationship of each character, an attempt to convey the message from the speaker to the hearer in order to be well received, by oral or written language. The process of social interaction in addressing people in this movie occurs in two features. Those are by the way of directly conversation and by correspondence. The writer can see the social dimensions reflected from the address terms used by characters. So here the physical contact is not a major requirement in social interaction. It can be through a long distance or otherwise close range physically is not necessarily happen a process of social interaction yet