processing
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. It means by reading and observing the data that has been collected, I do the analysis process.
5. Unit of the Analysis
The unit of analysis that is researched by the writer is the dialogue of Yes Man movie released on December 19
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, 2008 and downloaded through internet access www.Ganool.com
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.
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Muhammad, Metode Penelitian Bahasa Jogjakarta: Ar-Ruzz Media, 2011, pp 34 – 45.
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http:ganool.comyes-man-2008-bluray-720p-750mb-ganool accessed on May 10
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2012
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Defining Pragmatics
According to Yule, pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker or a writer and interpreted by a listener or a reader.
He said there are four definition about pragmatics, i.e.: 1 the study of speaker meaning, 2 the study of contextual meaning, 3 the study of how more gets
communicated that is said, and 4 the study of the expression of relative distance.
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According to Jacob. Mey, „Pragmatics is the study of the condition of
human language uses as these are determined by the context of society,
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while according to Levinson, pragmatics is the study of those relations between
language and context that are grammatically, or encoded in the structure of a language.
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Leech expresses that pragmatics was henceforth on the linguistics map. Its colonization was only the last stage of a wave by wave expansion of linguistics
from a narrow discipline dealing with the physical data of speech, to a broad discipline taking in form, meaning, and context. Leech sees pragmatics as study of
linguistics having relevant with semantics. This relevant mentioned as semanticism that is seeing pragmatics as part of semantics; pragmaticism, that is
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George Yule, Pragmatics Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, p.3.
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Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics an Introduction Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, p.6.
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Stephen C. Levinson, Pragmatics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, p.9.
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