xviii approval. Additionally, Christian feels delighted because he had been helping Andy in
order to save her job. Altogether, a good atmosphere exists during the conversation. It shows that they have a good relationship.
The example above is just one of many compliments and responses with regard
to politeness strategies delivered by the characters in The Devil Wears Prada. In the
movie, there are other compliments delivered by the characters expressed in many different ways as the characters use many different kinds of politeness strategies in
employing those compliment. Additionally, the way the characters gives responses to the compliment are also various. Thus, in the movie there are many other kinds of
compliments and compliment responses employed by the characters. Compliment and their responses relate closely to ethnography of communication, pragmatics, social
dimensions, politeness, and kinesics. Therefore this research takes socio-pragmatic approach as the way of the analysis.
B. Problem Statement
The problem statements are arranged as follows: 1. How compliments are employed by the characters in the movie entitled “The Devil
Wears Prada”? 2. What politeness strategies are employed by the characters in the conversation in
the movie entitled “The Devil Wears Prada”?
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C. Research Objective
The objectives of this research are: 1.
To discover the way compliments employed by the characters in the movie
entitled “The Devil Wears Prada”. 2.
To discover the politeness strategies employed by the characters in the conversation in the movie entitled “The Devil Wears Prada”.
D. Research Benefits
The result of this research is expected to give some benefit for the reader to obtain more comprehending insight toward linguistic study about discourse acts
particularly in compliment expressions. It also can be used as a reference to study particularly about compliment expressions and its correlation to the politeness.
E. Research Scope
This research takes only the dialogues containing compliments and their responses in the movie entitled “The Devil Wears Prada” as the data. It is focused on
identifying compliments and their responses delivered by the characters in the movie.
xx It also analyzes the politeness strategies applied by the characters in delivering the
compliments and their responses expressed by the interlocutors.
F. Research Methodology
This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Moleong states that qualitative research is a research that analyzes the phenomenon of what has
happened and been experienced by the subjects descriptively in a natural context by applying scientific methodology 2007: 6. Further explanation of research
methodology is presented in chapter III.
G. Thesis Organization
Chapter I: INTRODUCTION. It consists of Research Background, Problem
Statement, Research Objectives, Research Benefit, Research Scope, Research Methodology, and Thesis Organization.
Chapter II: LITERATURE REVIEW. It consists of Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of
Communication, Social Dimensions, Pragmatics, Politeness, Kinesics, Discourse Act, Compliment, Film, and Synopsis of the Film.
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Chapter III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. It consists of Type of Research, Data and
Source of Data, Data Coding, Technique of Collecting Data, Technique of Analyzing Data.
Chapter IV: ANALYSIS. It consists of Introduction, Data Analysis and Discussion.
Chapter V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
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A. Sociolinguistics
Language and society are firmly connected one another. As an important means of communication, language is used by man to interact with others. The study of relationship
between language and society is called sociolinguistics. Several linguists define sociolinguistics as follows:
Hymes refers sociolinguistics to the correlations between language and societies, and between particular linguistic and social phenomena 1974: vii. Similarly, Wardhaugh states that
sociolinguistics is concerned with investigating the relationships between language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure of language and of how languages
function in communication 1998: 12. A further explanation is given by Chaika:
Sociolinguistics is the study of ways people use language in social interactions of all kinds. The sociolinguist is concerned with the stuff of everyday life: how people talk
with their friends, families, and teachers, as well as to storekeepers, doctors, and enemies 1994: 3.
In addition Holmes in her An Introduction to Sosiolinguistics suggests that:
Sociolinguists study the relationship between language and society. They are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social contexts, and they are
concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning 1992: 1
Furthermore, William Downes defines sociolinguistics as the branch of linguistic which studies just those Properties of language and languages which require reference to social,
including contextual factors on their explanation 1984: 15.
xxiii In any situation linguistic choices will generally reflect the influence of one or
more of the following components:
1. The participants: who is speaking and who are they speaking to? 2. The setting or social context of the interaction: where are they speaking?
3. The topic: what is being talked about? 4. The function: why are they speaking?
Holmes, 1992: 12
It can be concluded that sociolinguistics studies the use of language in relation to social dimension that implicates the social relationships of social community. It means that
sociolinguistics is concerned with how people use language when they interact each other so that it can be seen what the language patterns are and how they are applied in any situation of
communication. Thus, analyzing the way people use language in different social contexts provides a wealth of information about the way language works, as well as about the social
relationships in any community.
B. Ethnography of Communication
