Endophora Anaphora Reference and Referent

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

In this study, the writer analyzes a movie entitled Kingsman: The Secret Service . The movie that was released on 13 February 2015 was actually based on the comic book The Secret Service created by Mark Millar and David Gibbons. This British action movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn and according to imdb.com 2015 it is considered as successful film to date due to the good ratings and positive reviews received by the movie. This study discussed the phrases used in utterances in the dialogue. This language element was chosen because every deixis refers to one or some referents. While the referent is always a noun phrase. To limit the object of the study, the writer bounds the data into one act only: first act. In a movie, according to Moura 2014 there are 3 major acts called three-act structure: the introduction, the rising action, and the falling action. The introduction part includes the introduction of the setting, the major characters, and the story of the movie. Each of the acts has different duration. In this movie, the first act or introduction part lasts for 25 minutes 38 seconds. From the first act, the writer collected 480 numbers of data. 17

B. Approach of the Study

In writing this study, the writer employed pragmatic approach to analyze the deixis. It is because the data are suitable with pragmatic approach, which concerned with the language relation to the contextual background features.

C. Method of the Study

In collecting the data for this study, the writer used internet research and library research. The writer found the script from moviequotesandmore.com and some theories from the internet and some other theories from books.

1. Kind of Data

The data needed in this thesis writing was the person deixis found in the Kingsman: The Secret Service movie. The person deixis deals with personal pronoun and vocatives. In personal pronouns, there were three types of personal pronoun. The types of personal pronoun found in this movie were first personal pronoun such as ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘me’, ‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’; second personal pronoun such as ‘you’, ’your’; and the third personal pronoun such as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’. The vocatives also found in the movie’s dialog, such as ‘Valentine’, ‘Galahad’, and ‘Eggsy’.

2. Data Collection

The writer collected the data by finding the script on the internet then checking the validity of the script by watching the movie repeatedly to get the person deixis and the referent.