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1. The topics of compliment
There are two topics of compliments employed by the characters of the film entitled The Holiday, namely the topic of appearance and the topic of ability.
Each topic is divided into two types. Therefore, there are four topics of compliments. They are personal appearance, possession, general ability, and
specific- act ability. Personal appearance deals with apparel or clothing and other aspects of
personal appearance such as a physical appearance. It can be found in data 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20. The data discuss the
speaker‟s positive value at the addressee‟s physical appearance. In these data, the speakers employ polite adjectives
beautiful, great, and idiom such as knockout, and the comparison object of Barbie to reflect positive comments. It is used to express something good.
The topic of possession is found in the compliment on material possession. It is also a favorable comment on something that appears to parallel comments
concerning possession. There are three data containing the topic of compliment on material possession that is found in the film The Holiday. They are data 03, 09,
and 13. These data use adjectives such as idyllic and lovely to express positive evaluation toward the address
ees‟ possessions. Datum 03 and datum 09 show that the speakers express compliment on t
he addressee‟s material possession of house. These data show
that the speakers use a polite adjective „idyllic‟ and „lovely‟. Meanwhile, in datum 13 shows that the speaker gives a compliment on the
material possession of the addressee‟s perfume.
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The topic of general ability includes the categorical reference to skill, talent, personal qualities, and taste. From all the data, the researcher finds the
compliments on skill, taste, and personal qualities. The data of the general ability are data 01, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 12, and 17. The data which deal with skill are
data 01, 04, and 05. The speaker employs polite adjective great, fantastic, and noun loved. While the datum which deal with taste is datum 12, it employs the
polite adjective great and also delectable. The data 02, 06, 07, 08, and also 17 are dealing with personal qualities. The speakers employ polite adjectives such as
great, funny, interesting, decent, and lovely. The compliment on specific act ability only happens in the situation in
which the specific acts are done. The topic of specific act ability can be found on the data 15, and 19. The speakers employ the polite adjective well, bravo, and
perfect. The speakers use the word „really‟ to strengthen the adjective „well‟ to
show that she is very surprised at the addressee‟s action.
The detail information can be seen in the table below. Table 1. Topics of Compliments
No. Topics
Datum Number Percentage
1. Personal Appearance
10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20 30
2. Possession
3, 2, 13, 15
3. General Ability
1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 17 45 4.
Specific Act Ability 15, 21
10
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It can be seen from the table that there are four types of topics of compliments employed by the characters in the film entitled “The Holiday”. They
are topic of personal appearance 30 , topic of possession 15, topic of general ability 45, topic of specific act ability 10.
2. The Function of Each Topics of Compliments
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