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a noted screenwriter from Hollywoods Golden Era, and Miles Jack Black, a film composer who works with Amandas ex-boyfriend. In England, where it is
anything but balmy, Amanda is just settling into the cozy solitude of the snow- covered Rose Hill Cottage, when Iris handsome brother Graham Jude Law
comes knocking at the cottage door. In an unexpected turn of events, both women discover that the best trips are the ones where you leave your baggage behind.
Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures Present in association with Relativity Media, A Waverly Films Production, The Holiday starring Cameron Diaz, Kate
Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell. The film is written and directed by Nancy Meyers. The producers are Nancy
Meyers and Bruce A. Block and the executive producer is Suzanne Farwell. The director of photography is Dean Cundey ASC. The Holiday was released by
Columbia Pictures on December 8, 2006.
J. Review of Related Study
A study about compliment has been done by previous researcher. This has been done by Nurharjanti 2005 in her thesis entitled The Use of Compliments as
Positive Politeness Strategy in Speeches of Men and Women Characters in the Film “Notting Hill”. This research is intended to describe the compliments of
women and men, to show the topics of compliments expression and to describe the function of compliments as positive politeness strategy.
The result of the study covered by the findings that women receive more compliments than men as their positive politeness strategy in language use.
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Therefore, women are linguistically more polite than men. There are three topics of compliments; appearances possession, performance skill abilities, and
personality traits friendliness topics. The functions of the compliments are to increase and consolidate solidarity between interlocutors, to ease communication,
to express positive evaluation admiration and to replace other speech act formulas.
A study about compliment has also been done by Sularsih 2005 in her thesis entitled
“The Analysis of Compliments and Their Responses in the Film Entitled Never Been Kissed
”. It describes the topics of the compliment used by the speaker through the dialog of the sequence and also describes the functions of
each topic of the compliments in the film and figures out the responses launched by the addressees.
The results of the study show that there are two topics of the compliments namely the topic of appearance and the topic of ability. Each topic is divided into
two types. Therefore, there are four topics of compliments, namely personal appearance, possession, general ability, and specific act ability. Furthermore, there
are eight types of compliment functions: as social lubricant to create or maintain the rapport, as spontaneous expressions of admiration and or approval, as
encouragement, to express the positive evaluation, to strengthen or even to replace other speech act formulas, to soften criticism, to modify the sarcasm. In her
research, Sularsih applied eight of 12 types of compliment responses proposed by Herbert, namely: Appreciation token, Comment Acceptance-single, return, Scale
down, Question, Disagreement, Qualification, and No Acknowledgment.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher will present the research methodology. Research methodology deals with the method used in reaching the goals of the
research. The goals of this research are to analyze the compliments expression in the dialog of the characters in the movie and the way the addressees respond to the
compliments.
A. Type of Research
This research belongs to a descriptive qualitative method, since this research is objected to collect the data, to analyze the data and to draw conclusion.
Surakhmad 1994:147 states that a descriptive method is a kind of research method using technique of searching, collecting, classifying, analyzing the data,
interpreting them, and finally drawing conclusion. Moreover, it is a qualitative research because this research aims at
describing a non-statistical or descriptive data. Sutopo 2002: 35 states that in qualitative method, data were collected in the forms of words, sentences or
pictures in which the meaning is more significant than numbers.
B. Data and Source of Data
Source of data refers to the subject from which the data are obtained Arikunto, 2002:107. Data themselves may appear in the form of discourse,
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