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f. Compliments often serve to strengthen other speech act formulas.
Compliment may often serve to replace or strengthen other speech act formulas like thangking, apoligizing and greetings, for example, thanks for
beautiful cake, we really like it. g.
Compliments may also be used to soften criticism. It is particularly happen when the participants are in the relationship still want
to continue and to maintain a social harmony each other. Thereefore, cmpliment usually combined by but. It is used to minimize the irritiating
effect of the speaker’ criticism. For instance: The ending of the story of movie is good but it is actually quite moving.
h. Compliments may be used to modify the sarcasm.
A comment structured in the form of compliment may quite easly turn into a reprimand or even an insult. For example You play a good game of football
for a woman. Compliments operate within the scheme of conversational postulates such as
make the hearer feel good Lackoff 1975, Goody 1918.
2.3 Compliments Responses
Compliment response is a verbal acknowledgement that the recipient of the compliment or the addressee heard and reacted to the compliment. This reaction may
differ from one person to another or from one society to another depending on a variety of contextual and cultural factors Trippod, 1999. Compliment responses
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means a very common phrase or sentence that people say after another person has praised them for ability, possession, appearance, or anything which is valuable for
social or economic reason. F or instance, when someone says to his friend, “you look
so beautiful”, and his friend may say “thank you.” Related to response the compliments, Herbert 1990 classified its responses into
12 different types of compliment responses. Here are: 1.
Appreciation token— A verbal or nonverbal acceptance of the compliment e. g , thanks, thank you, [nod].
2. Comment acceptance—single—Addressee accepts the complimentary force
and give a comment on the appreciated topic e. g, Yeah, its my favorite, too. 3.
Praise upgrade—Addressee accepts the compliment from speaker and affirms that the compliment force is enough e.g., really brings out the blue in my
eyes, doesnt it? 4.
Comment history—Addressee give a comment on the object complimented, it shifts the force from the addressee e.g., I bought it for the trip to Arizona.
5. Reassignment—Addressee accepts with the compliment assertion, but shifts
the force to some third person or object e.g., my brother gave it to me; It really knitted itself.
6. Return— As with except that the praise is returned to the first speaker e.g.,
Son’s yours.
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7. Scale down—addressee disagrees with the complimentary force, pointing to
some flaw in the object or claiming that the praise is overstated e.g., Its really quite old.
8. Question—addressee questions the sincerity or the appropriateness of the
compliment e.g., Do you really think so? 9.
Disagreement—addressee asserts that the object compliment is not worthy of praise; the first speakers assertion is in error e.g., I hate it.
10. Qualification—weaker than 9. Addressee merely qualifies the original
assertion, usually with though, but, well, etc. e.g., Its all right, but Lens is nicer.
11. No acknowledgement—addressee gives no indication of having heard the
compliment. He either responds with an irrelevant comment topic shift or gives no response
– Silence. 12.
Request interpretation—addressee, consciously or not, interpret the compliment as a request rather than a simple compliment; it is not actually a
compliment response e.g., you want to borrow this one, too?
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3. Research Methodology
This chapter present research design, subject of the research, data and data source, research instrument, data collection and data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
This research design is descriptive qualitative. It is descriptive study since this research investigates the words or conversations of the main characters in The Ugly
Truth movie in compliments and responses. In this research, the researcher applies a descriptive qualitative method
that is used to solve the problem by collecting data, classifying data, analyzing the data, and making the conclusion. The data of this research are all conversations used
by the main characters in The Ugly Truth movie which contain compliments and responses in the form of words or utterances on the dialogue of the movie.
3.2 Subject of the Research
The subject of this research are the conversations of main characters in the The Ugly Truth movie directed by Robert Luketic. The researcher analyzed what
types of compliments and responses that used by the main characters in the movie entitled The Ugly Truth.
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3.3 Data and Data Source
In conducting this research, the researcher takes The Ugly Truth movie and the script of this movie as the source of data. In addition, the data of this research are
taken from conversations containing of compliments and responses. The movie of The Ugly Truth will be choosen since there are types of compliments and responses
produced by the main characters.
3.4 Research Instrument
The main instrument of this research is that researcher becomes the key instrument in obtaining the result of the research. Thus, in order to investigate
compliments and responses used in this movie, the researcher is the one who collects, and invistigates, the data that are already provided in this movie.
3.5 Data Collection
In the following is the technique of how the data are collected: 1.
Replaying the movie The Ugly Truth as the source of data for many times. 2.
Searching and copying the transcript of the movie The Ugly Truth from the internet.
3. Comparing the transcript of the movie to the diaologues of the main
characters in the movie. 4.
Taking notes on all of the utterances which contains compliments and responses as the data of the reasearch.
5. Copying the diaologues where the compliments and responses occur.
