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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
As stated in the first chapter, the objectives of this research are to find out the types of request used by the main characters, to examine the strategies used by
the main characters, and to explain the purposes of request used by the main characters toward the requestee in The Intern movie. This chapter consists of two
parts, namely findings and discussion to answer the problems of this research. The findings are presented in the table of data findings. Moreover, the discussion
shows the explanation of each datum.
A. Findings
This section describes the findings of request employed by the main characters in the movie entitled The Intern. The data are classified based on the
three objectives. The first is types of request employed by the main characters in The Intern. The types of request proposed by Trosborg occur in this movie, i.e.
unconventionally indirect request, conventionally indirect request based on the hearer, conventionally indirect request based on the speaker, and direct request.
Meanwhile, the second objective is the strategies of request used by the main characters in The Intern. They include hi
nts, questioning hearer‘s abilitywillingness, suggestory formulae, statement of speaker‘s wishesdesires,
statement of speaker‘s needsdemands, statement of obligationsnecessities, and imperatives. The last is the purposes of request used by the main characters in The
Intern, i.e. request for goods, request for the initiation of action, request for the
cessation of action, and request for joint activity. The occurrence of the types, strategies, and purposes is presented in Table 2.
Table 2. Types, Strategies, and Purposes of Request Expressed by the Main Characters in
Nancy Meyers’s The Intern
Types Strategies
Purposes Frequency
Total
Unconventionally Indirect request
Hints Request for goods
1
4
Request for initiation of action 3
Conventionally Indirect request
hearer Questioning h
earer‘s Abilitywillingness
Request for goods 1
17
Request for initiation of action 5
Request for cessation of action 2
Request for joint activity 5
Suggestory formulae Request for initiation of action
2 Request for joint activity
2 Conventionally
Indirect request speaker
Statements of speakers wishesdesires
Request for initiation of action 1
5
Statements of speakers needsdemands
Request for initiation of action 4
Direct Request Statements of
obligationsnecessities Request for initiation of action
1
9
Request for cessation of action 1
Performatives -
Imperatives Request for initiation of action
4 Request for cessation of action
2 Request for joint activity
1
Total 35
As shown in Table 2., request occurs 35 times in The Intern movie. The most dominant type of request is conventionally indirect request based on the
hearer. This happens since the requestee is in the position of controlling the conversation whether heshe complies the request or not. In addition, the main
characters mostly use modal verbs, i.e. can, could, will, and would for expressing the request. Furthermore, questioning
hearer‘s abilitywillingness becomes the most prominent strategy which is employed by the main characters. By asking
questions, the main characters express their request. It is more polite than other strategies since the questions use the modal verbs. Meanwhile, there is one
strategy which occurs once and one strategy is not shown in the movie.
Statements of speaker‘s wishesdesires only occur once. When using this strategy,
the re quester‘s wishes are important because the central power is on the requester.
Thus, statements of wishesdesires only occur once because the main characters rarely use power to control their request. On the other hand, performatives is not
expressed by the main characters. This strategy is too authoritative since the request forces the requestee to do what heshe wants. The request uses requestive
intention such as request, order, demand, and command. Following the explanation about types and strategies, the conspicuous request‘s purpose is
request for initiation of action. The main characters often apply this type of purposes in their request since the aim is to perform an action that a requester
wants. Regarding the table of request above, it is clearly seen that the main
characters mostly use indirect request based on the hearer and apply questioning abilitywillingness to express their request toward the requestee. It is because the
relation of both type and strategy makes the request to be polite and sounds less authoritative. In addition, the purpose of request is to make the requestee performs
an action, even though there is no burden to carry out the request.
B. Discussion