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because of Graham. She thinks that Graham is funny guy which is like a bonus for her holiday package.
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that the compliment has a topic of general ability which deals with personal qualities. The speaker uses
adjective word „funny‟ to show that the speaker is interested with the addressee‟s
personality. The compliment functions to create and maintain rapport. The addressee of the compliment is Graham. The types of his response is
mitigate because the addressee shifts the compliment into a joke. The addressee implicitly says that when he is sober, he might be not that funny.
“The Holiday” is one of the examples of movies which have real communication in a real social context. The genre is romantic, where the language
used in the dialog has an important role in creating romantic situation. There are many compliment expressions in the dialogue as shown in the two examples
above. Thus, the researcher intends to conduct a research entitled: An Analysis of Compliments and Responses to Compliments i
n The Film Entitled “The Holiday”.
B. Problem Statements
Referring to the research background stated previously, the researcher formulates the problem statements as follows:
1. What are the topics of compliments used in the speeches among the characters in the film „The Holiday‟?
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2. What are the functions of speech act compliments employed by the characters of the film entitled „The Holiday‟?
3. How do the charac ters respond to the compliments in the film entitled „The
Holiday‟?
C. Research Limitation
There are many kinds of speech acts found in the film entitled „The
Holiday‟. However, this research is only focused on the speech act of giving and responding to compliments. Further, this research takes the conversation
containing speech act compliments in the film as the data including verbal and written form. The researcher identifies the topics, the functions, and also the
responses of the speech act compliments used by the characters in the film.
D. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are: 1. To reveal the topics of compliments employed by the characters in the
film entitled „The Holiday‟. 2. To reveal the functions of speech act compliments in the film entitled
„The Holiday‟. 3. To explain the responses to the compliments by the characters in the film
entitled „The Holiday‟.
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E. Research Benefits
This research is expected to give contribution as follows: 1.
The readers I hope that this research will give an understanding to the readers
about the types of topics of compliments that they can use in complimenting others. This research is also important to give
understanding about the way issuing appropriate compliment to others because sometimes compliments
may become an insult and hurt others‟ feel if it is not relevant with the certain condition.
2. Other researchers
This research is expected to be a reference for other researchers to conduct further research about the employment of politeness strategy in
compliments.
F. Research Methodology
