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.

C. Conceptual Framework

Language is a primary tool of interaction among people in a society. People use language to communicate and to express their feeling and ideas with others. There are many language branches that are important to consider. Sociolinguistics is one of the linguistic branches that deals with the ways people use language in social interactions. There are many aspects studied in sociolinguistics such as Tu and Vous, address terms, and politeness. However, in this research, the researcher only deals with one aspect namely address terms. In this research, the researcher focuses on investigating The Theory of Everything movie covering two important points of research questions, i.e. types of address terms and social factors influencing the use of address terms based on the situation in The Theory of Everything movie. To answer the research questions, this research uses Wardaugh’s and Chaika’s theory about classification of types and social factors of address terms. This research identified seven types of address terms as the first research question. As classification by Wardaugh 2006 and Chaika 1982, there are seven types of address terms. They are first name FN, title plus last name TLN, title only T, last name LN, special name SN, pet name PN, and kinship term KT. Then, to answer the second research question, the researcher also employed Wardaugh’s and Chaika’s theory about the social factors influencing the use of address terms. There are nine social factors in using address terms as classified by them. They are particular occasion PO, social status or rank of the other SS, gender G, age A, family relationship FR, occupational hierarchy OH, transactional status TS, race R and degree of intimacy DI.