because he said that he is not happy. So from this disagreement, Brad violates the Agreement Maxim. The agreement maxim the speaker should minimize
disagreement between self and other and otherwise Maximize agreement between self and other. The communication is a process where the information exchanged
between individuals, then, there are two persons or more involved in communication. The person who utters his idea or information is called the
speaker and the person who hears the speaker’s idea or information is called the hearer.
The writer finds the sentence or the words that cause offense in the impoliteness language from the dialog. Therefore, the writer is interested to
research the maxims of the politeness that is found on dialogue of Date Night movie. Then the writer is interested to analyze this topic because there are many
impoliteness words actually can be analyzed through its language using pragmatics theory.
B. Focus of the Study
According to the background of the study, this research focuses on the study of pragmatics especially on politeness principle. The writer solely focuses
her research to the violence to the maxims of politeness principle on the dialogue of Date Night movie. The writer uses the Geoffrey Leech theory of politeness,
particularly on politeness maxims. Then the writer will find some violations of maxims on the dialogue.
C. Research Question
To make more convenient and simple in the research, the research question for this research:
1. Which maxims of the politeness are violated in the dialogues of Date
Night movie? 2.
What are the words that indicate the impoliteness language in the conversation?
D. Objective of the Study
The aims of this research are, 1.
Identifying and explaining the maxims of the politeness which are being violated in the dialogues of Date Night movie.
2. Finding what are the words that indicated of impoliteness in the dialogues
of Date Night movie.
E.
Significances of the Study
The writer hopes this research may provide the benefit to analyze the insult of words based on pragmatics generally, especially concerning the
politeness principle. The writer also hopes this research expectable to be the one of a very useful reference material for various purposes, especially in the field of
pragmatics both for language researchers and readers.
F. Research Methodology
1. Method of the Study
This research uses qualitative method by collecting data from various sources related to research. The writer will describe the data which are violating
the politeness principle. 2.
Data Analysis In this research, the researcher uses qualitative data analysis technique
based on Geoffrey Leech theory. The writer is collecting the whole book that are relevant to theory of pragmatics and maxims of politeness, then reading and
understanding a manuscript of Date Night movie. Identifying the dialogues of Date Night movie that are violated the politeness principle and concluding the
data analysis. 3.
Instrument of The Research The writer uses herself as a main research instrument to obtain the data
supported by the research theory. The process of collecting the data likes reading, understanding, identifying and analyzing the data by using pragmatic approach
and theory of Geoffrey Leech. 4.
Unit of the Analysis The unit of analysis that the writer’s research is the dialogues of Date
Night movie released on April 9, 2010 and produced by Sony Pictures. 5.
Time and Place of the Research. This research was conducted in the 8 semester of 2010 in English
Language and Literature Department, Adab and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic
University of Jakarta and in selected libraries such as in Atma Jaya Catholic University library.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Definition of Pragmatics
