The Theory of Everything Movie
proposed by Leech. This study employed a descriptive qualitative research. The findings of this study indicated that 1 the most appearing type of address term is
title only, 2 the most appearing purpose of address terms is to make someone inferior in their utterances, and 3 the appearing kind of roles influencing the use of
addressing terms is based on their class. Then, another study dealing with address terms is research entitled “The
Sociolinguistic Analysis of Addressing Terms Used in The Karate Kid Movie” conducted by Sari in 2015. The study was mainly focused on analyzing the
variations, the reasons, and the politeness pattern of address terms applied in The Karate Kid movie. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The researcher
found that the common address terms variations used by the characters are name, kinship, intimacy, respect, and mockery. The most appearing data related to the
reasons of address terms are to show intimacy, care, sympathy, worry, powerauthority, politeness, to calm someone, to warn someone, and to show
angerdislike. Finally, as the third objective, the common politeness patterns of address terms in this study are asymmetrical TV usage, symmetricalmutual T usage,
and symmetricalmutual V usage. Both previous studies focused on address terms. Compared to the previous
studies, this study is entitled A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Address Terms Uttered by the Characters in James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything Movie. The aims of this
study are to identify the types of address terms which are uttered by the characters in
The Theory of Everything movie and to describe the social factors that affect the characters of The Theory of Everything movie in certain types of address terms. There
are some differences between the previous studies and this research. First, the researcher investigates the same topic by using a different theory and object. By using
a different object, the research can show different results as it takes a different context. Second, the two previous studies describe the types of address terms.
Meanwhile, the researcher does not only try to describe the types of address terms but also try to describe the social factors influencing the use of address terms in the
movie. However, this research analyzes address terms by using Chaika’s and Wardaugh’s theory.