An Analysis of english compliment in the movie of "Mean Girls"

AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH COMPLIMENTS IN THE MOVIE OF
"MEAN GIRLS"

A PAPER
Submitted to the Faculty of Adab and Humanities in partial accomplishment of the
requirements for the Degree of Strata 1 (S 1)

By

MAN FIRMANSYAH
NIM: 102026024493

THE ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ADAB ANDiHUMANITIES
SYARIF I-llDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
JAKARTA
2006

ABSTRACT

Man Firmansyah, "An Analysis of English Compliments in the Movie of

Mean Girls," the English Letters Department, the Faculty of Adab and Humanities,

State ofIslamic University SyarifHidayatullah, Jakarta 2006.
This paper discussed about English compliments based on the mOVIe of
"Mean Girls" by Mark S. Waters, which are represented by American teenagers when
they use this compliments in their social lives. In this research., the writer quotes some
theories of Nessa Wolfson, Janet Holmes and other related tlIeories concerning the
English compliments.
The writer used check list and tabulation to collect data, and the data analyzed
through descriptive analysis technique. The data that related to this research are
collected from the movie scripts of "Mean Girls" by Mark S. Waters, and other
articles of compliment which are available from the library of UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah and fi'om the other libraries. From this analysis found 10 kinds of
compliment utterances in English that used in the movie of "Mean Girls". Besides
that, the writer describes the types of compliment responses are used in the movie.
Finally, the writer hopes that this study will be useful for all students of
English Literary Department. The writer hopes that this study will have more
knowledge about the compliment utterances and their responses, especially from the
movie of "Mean Girls".