A SOCIO PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS OF COMPLAINT UTTERANCES USED IN ROMANTIC COMEDY MOVIE SCRIPT

This research deals with complaint utterances in a romantic comedy movie script. The aims of this research are to identify the forms, to clarify the implicature and to describe the politeness strategies of the complaint utterances in a romantic comedy movie script. The writer employs the descriptive qualitative as a type of the research. The data source of this research is one romantic comedy movie script. The methods of collecting data are documentation and observation, while the techniques are reading, watching, and identifying and underlying the data. The techniques of analyzing data of this research are describing the form by referring to linguistic form, describing the implicature based on the context of pragmatics by Hymes, and identifying the politeness strategies by using Face Threatening Act theory. This study shows the variety of the form, implicature, and politeness strategy of complaint utterances used in romantic comedy movie script. The variants of forms showing complaint utterances are phrase and sentence. The sentences are: declarative and interrogative, while the phrase is noun phrase. The implicature of the study covers implied meaning of conventional implicature and conversational implicature. The politeness patterns are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record