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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is a film script entitled Milk. This film was an autobiographical film of the main character named Harvey Milk, a first openly
gay politician back then in 1977. It was released on November 26, 2008. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and was performed by an Academy Award winning
actor Sean Penn. The film script was written by Dustin Lance Black. The transcription of Milk was identical to the film script which was written by Dustin
Lance Black and directed by Gus Van Sant. In that light, the transciption of the film is relevant to the dialogs uttered by the characters in the film. The film script
consisted of 106 pages. The script was distributed into 160 scenes, but not all scenes depicted the issue of gay discrimination and gay liberation.
The film script of Milk was chosen as the source of data, for the film received eight Academy Award nominations that eventually led to winning two
nominations which were Best Actor Sean Penn and Best Original Screenplay Dustin Lance Black. The nomination and victory were the results of its
contribution in portraying an issue of homosexuality, which was acclaimed with numerous accolades by the audiences or film critics.
In the film script, there are lots of sentences uttered by the characters. In the aim of analyzing their utterances, the linguistic element that is necessary to be
analyzed is the sentences in Black’s film script. In order to create a specific PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
examination, the sentences that are analyzed are the sentences containing certain presupposed meaning. Certain words and phrases are also essential to complement
this study because certain words or phrases in the sentence containing the presupposed meaning may also be important to be examined.
B. Approach of the Study
The foundation of this study is comprised of two linguistic approaches. Firstly, the pragmatic approach is applied. As stated above, pragmatic approach
deals with certain meanings that are communicated by a speaker. The data of this study are certain sentences uttered by the characters
in Black’s film script. Therefore, pragmatic approach is the strategic approach to treat the data as the
object of examination to discover the meaning that aims to be communicated by the characters
in Black’s film script. Eventually, the examination of the meaning communicated by the characters will be done under the specific concept of
presupposition which reveals certain presupposed meaning in the characters ’
utterances. As stated above, presupposition is something that the speaker assumes to be the case through his or her utterance. Thus, presupposition conveys certain
information that can be presupposed through certain utterances. Consequently, presupposition will be essential in depicting certain presupposed meaning from
the characters ’ utterances and the presupposed meaning will be related to the
context of gay liberation in San Francisco during the 1970s. Presupposition is the most strategic concept in this study because
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