Findings FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

37

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