A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF ADDRESS TERMS UTTERED BY THE CHARACTERS IN JAMES MARSH’S THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING MOVIE

This research employs sociolinguistic approach to investigate address terms uttered by the characters in The Theory of Everything movie. This research has two objectives; to identify the types of address terms uttered by the characters in The Theory of Everything movie and to analyze the social factors of address terms uttered by the characters in The Theory of Everything movie. This research was conducted by employing descriptive qualitative research method. The main instrument of this research is the researcher herself. The data of the research were in the form of sentences, clauses, or words spoken by the characters in the movie. The contexts of the data were utterances and conversations. The sources of the data were the movie of The Theroy of Everything and the movie script. To collect the data, the researcher employed note-taking technique from the character’s utterances in the movie. To gain the data trustworthiness, the researcher asked the triangulators to check the collected data. The results of this research are presented as follows. First, first name (FN) appears more frequently because it is one of the ways to reach intimacy among the characters. First name not only appears when the setting of the conversation is in the house but also appears when the conversation occurs in a college area. Second, the social factor of address terms which mostly influences the use of address terms by the characters is the degree of intimacy (DI). In this kind of settings, first name is usually used to address someone as it indicates equality and familiarity. This type of address terms is regarded as a sign of considerable intimacy. Degree of intimacy is dominantly performed by the characters since the settings of the conversations mostly take place in a house. In a house, the interactions between the members of the family are mostly depicted