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CHAPTER III CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of two parts, namely conclusions and recommendations. The conclusions part presents the major findings of the
research. Meanwhile, the recommendations part presents the suggestion for the students in English department and future researchers who are interested in
conducting a research in the same field.
A. Conclusions
The problem discussed in this paper is about tag questions and rising intonation on declaratives used by the two female main characters Bex and Suze
in Confessions of a Shopaholic movie. Then, content analysis was used as the method of this research. In addition, this research used the movie transcript and
the movie itself to analyze the data. This part is divided into two parts. The first part is about tag questions. Then, the second part is about rising intonation on
declaratives.
1. Tag Questions in Confessions of a Shopaholic Movie
From the analysis, it was found that tag question was rarely used by the two female main characters Bex and Suze in Confessions of a Shopaholic movie.
The two female main characters used this feature only for four times. However, Suze used more tags than Bex. Suze used it for three times while Bex used it only
for one time. This feature was used by Suze to ask clarification or as an PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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or as a facilitative tag and to soften a criticism or as a softening tag. Meanwhile, Bex used this feature only to ask agreement or as a facilitative tag. From this
result, it is true that “Treating all tags as signals of uncertainty is clearly
misleading” Holmes, 2001, p. 290. Furthermore, intonation used in the tag also played an important role in
conveying meaning of a sentence or utterance containing a tag question. In this case, intonation became the indicator whether a tag question served as an
uncertainty tag, a facilitative tag or a softening tag. When a tag was said with a rising intonation, it served as an uncertainty tag. However, when a tag was said
with a falling intonation, it served as a facilitative or a softening tag. Facilitative and softening functions created by the falling intonation also reflected another
side of the two female main characters in the movie – cared about others‟ feelings.
Therefore, it is very important to use a precise intonation in order to obtain the intended function of a tag.
2. Rising Intonation on Declaratives in Confessions of a Shopaholic Movie
Rising intonation on declarative was also used infrequently by the two female main characters Bex and Suze in Confessions of a Shopaholic movie. This
feature was only used for six times by those characters in the movie. In this case, Bex used more rising intonation on declaratives than Suze. Bex used it for five
times while Suze used it only for one time. From the result, it is concluded that this feature was used by Bex only to indicate lack of finality, reduce the force of
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