Inference The Three-Act Structure

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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. 18 Then, the writer limited the data into one act only act 1 only. Then, the writer found the person deixis and the referent, which occurred in the dialogue, found in the movie based on the theory of person deixis and reference. The collected data were classified into three major categories of reference: 1 Anaphora, 2 Cataphora, and 3 Exophora.

3. Data Analysis

After gathering the data needed in this study, the writer did an analysis on the data. There are two major steps in analyzing the data: data observation and data analysis. First, the writer observed the collected data of the movie by watching the movie then validating the script of the movie. Second, the writer collected and analyzed the entire person deixis expression used in the introduction part act 1 of the movie by classifying the type of reference by giving a tick √ to the destined table. Then the writer tried to find the referents of the person deixis. The writer sorted the data chronologically in order to make the table easier to understand. After finding the referents of the person deixis, the writer concerned about the inference that the audience will probably need when watching the movie. The following table is the table used to collect and classify the data: No. Minutes Speaker Utterance Reference Referent Endo Exo Ana Cata