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1. What types of elicitations are employed by the main characters in the film
entitled The Day After Tomorrow? 2.
How do the main characters employ those types of elicitations with respect to the participants’ statuses and roles in the film entitled The Day After
Tomorrow? 3.
Why do the main characters employ those types of elicitations?
C. Problem Limitation
Elicitations as an important part of everyday communication can perform many different functions due to the different responses prospected. Elicitations are
recognizable in English spoken when the speaker or the sender wants to elicit an obligatory verbal response or its non-verbal surrogate from the addressee, the
hearer or the receiver Tsui: 1994. Thus, since there are many elicitations employed by the characters in the film entitled The Day After Tomorrow, the
analysis of this research is only focused on the elicitations employed by the main characters’ with respect to the participants’ statuses and roles in which the
conversation occur.
D. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are as follows:
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1. To identify the types of elicitations employed by the main characters in the
film entitled The Day After Tomorrow. 2.
To reveal the way those types of elicitations employed by the main characters with respect to the participants’ statuses and roles in the film entitled The Day
After Tomorrow. 3.
To find out the reasons why those types of elicitations employed by the main character in the film entitled The Day After Tomorrow.
E. Research Benefit
This research is conducted with a hope that it will be beneficial for: 1.
The students of English Department The research is expected can give input and understanding to the
students in studying discourse acts especially the elicitations and their responses from socio-pragmatics point of view.
2. Lecturers
The research is hoped to give a contribution in teaching the linguistic studies, particularly, which deals with socio-pragmatics phenomena.
3. Other Researchers
This research, hopefully, can inspire other researchers as a reference to conduct further research on the elicitations and their responses.
F.
Research Methodology
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This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. It is descriptive as the research describes the data as the way they are. Bodgan and Taylor in Maleong,
argue that a qualitative methodology refers to the research procedure, which brings about descriptive data both in written or spoken forms available to be
examined 1990:3. This research also applies a purposive sampling technique to obtain the
data needed. Thus, it can be predicted that the typical study results in a mass of information in the form of transcripts, recording and saving, in short, in a plethora
of words; hence, the researcher makes a data reduction with criterion-based selection. The data of the research are all dialogs of the main characters in which
they employ elicitations in the film entitled The Day After Tomorrow. Thus, this research is a descriptive qualitative research since it takes some steps such as
finding the data, collecting the data, classifying the data, analyzing the data, and presenting the result of the analysis.
This research is done by using socio-pragmatics approach to identify the relationship between the characters’ statuses and roles with the application of the
elicitations in the film. Thus, this research is also intended to determine the relationship between the appearance of the elicitations with the ethnography of
communication, the domains of language use, the social dimensions, and the politeness usage. The detail explanation of the research methodology is presented
in chapter three in which the research methodology resides within.
G. Thesis Organization
