B. Problem Formulation
The writer formulates two problems into two questions. Therefore, the writer states the problems as:
1. What types of the directives speech acts are employed by Miranda Priestly to
her subordinates in the movie entitled The Devil Wears Prada? 2.
What leadership styles are shown by Miranda Priestly’s directive speech acts in The Devil Wears Prada Movie?
C. Objectives of the Study
The object of the study in this undergraduate thesis is a character named Miranda Priestly in a movie entitled The Devil Wears Prada. The character is
analyzed based on the theory of directive speech acts, direct and indirect speech acts, politeness strategy, components of speech, and the leadership style.
To achieve the aim of this study, the writer identifies the types of Miranda’s utterances using theory of directive speech acts. After understanding
her type of directive speech acts, the data will be analyzed using direct and indirect speech acts, politeness strategy, components of speech, and leadership
style theory to determine how the directive speech acts show her leadership style.
D. Definition of Terms
There are some terms that often appear in this undergraduate thesis. In order to avoid misunderstanding of those terms, the writer will explain the
meaning of each term based on some references. Levinson 1983:21 defines
pragmatics as the study of the relation between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding. Another definition of pragmatics is also
given by Yule 1996:4. He states briefly that pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms.
The discussion about speech acts is also important in this research since the approach of this research is using pragmatics approach. Austin 1965:3 in his
work How to Do Things with Words defines speech act as the actions performed in saying something. Here, there are three types of act when utterance is produce:
a locutionary act, an illocutionary act, and a perlocutionary act. Those three types of speech act will be discussed in the next chapter.
Besides, the writer limits the research into directive speech act in her research. Directive speech act is described by Huang 2007:107 as a speech act
that attempts by the speaker to get the addressee to do something. This description also has the same point with what Yule 1996:54 states before. He says that
directives are those kinds of speech acts that speakers use to get someone else to do something.
Finally, the last aim of this research is to find out how the directive speech acts represent Miranda Priestly’s leadership style. Based on Lewin in Herbert’s
book 1976:379, there are three kinds of leadership style as the effects of different styles on group member behavior. They are differentiated as follows:
1. The Autocratic Style is leadership style in which the leader makes all
decisions that relate to the group and is the major source of influence in the group’s activities.
2. The Democratic Style is leadership style in which the leader shares his or her
influence with the group. 3.
The last is the Laissez-Faire Style. This kind of leadership makes a leader not really as a leader at all because a whole group member must take assumes the
leadership functions into their activities.
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