are divided into declarations, representatives, expressives, directives, and commisisves.
The third problem is the request itself. According Searle via Leech 1983:106, request belongs to directive speech act in which it is intended to produce some effect
through action by the hearer. According to Trosborg 1995:192, there are four types of request, i.e. unconventionally indirect request, conventionally indirect request
hearer-oriented condition, conventionally indirect request speaker-oriented condition, and direct request.
The last problem is dealing with the strategies of making request. The speaker must apply the strategies if they want to deliver their requests successfully to the
hearer. Trosborg 1995:195 proposes eight strategies based on the degree of imposition towards the hearer. The strategies are hints, questioning hearer`s ability
and willingness, suggestory formulae, statements of speaker`s wishes and demands, statements of speaker`s needs and demands, statement of obligations and necessities,
performatives and imperatives.
C. Limitation of the Problem
Based on the identification of the problems above, the researcher comes to research limitation. This research, however, is limited only to the speech act of
requests uttered by the characters in the Office Space movie. This research only explains the types of request and the strategies of making request applied by the
characters in the movie.
D. Formulation of the Problem
In relation to the limitation of the problems above, the research questions can be formulated as follows:
1. What are the types of request uttered by the characters in Office Space?
2. What are the strategies applied by the characters in Office Space when making a
request?
E. Research Objectives
Based on the formulation of the problems, the objectives of the research are: 1.
to describe the types of request uttered by the characters in Office Space, and 2.
to explain the strategies applied by the characters in Office Space when making a request.
F. Significance of the Research
The results of the research are expected to give both theoritical and practical
significances. Theoritically, the research findings are expected to enrich the comprehension and understanding of pragmatics, especially about speech act of
requests to the other linguistic researchers. Practically, the research will give some benefits for certain parties.
1. Students of English Language and Literature Study Program
The students majoring in linguistics can apply the sentence related to the speech act of request in their dialogues to other people.
2. Linguistic Researchers
This research can give references in conducting research related to pragmatics.
CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter is divided into four parts. The first section in this chapter is literature review, which covers some theories on pragmatics especially speech act of
request. The second section is a brief description of Office Space movie which covers the synopsis of the movie. The next section is the previous research findings which
explain the previous research conducted by other researchers in the same research area. The last section is conceptual framework that explains the concept in
accordance with the problems of the research.
A. Literature Review
1. Pragmatics
Language is used in daily life to interact with each other. It needs to be understood by people since it can reveal people`s thoughts and ideas. When someone
says, ”I‟m hungry”, hisher words can be interpreted in many ways. The hearer can interpret it as a sign that the speaker is merely hungry. However, it also can be
interpreted that the speaker wants someone to get himher food. Hence, the hearer also needs context or situational background to interpret a speaker`s intention since
an utterance can be interpreted in many ways. To understand people`s intention, heshe cannot only depend on the structure of
language but heshe should deal with the context. Yule 1996:3 writes that
