ADDRESSING TERMS IN OSCAR WILDE’S THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

SITI ROKHMAH , NIM. 09150071 (2014) ADDRESSING TERMS IN OSCAR WILDE’S THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA.

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Abstract

This research discussed about addressing terms which is used in the dialogue or conversation in a text play, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This research is done to describe how the characters addressing each other. It also explains the factors that affect the use of a certain addressing types. The type of the research is descriptive qualitative research with documentation method. The source of data comes from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The theory by Janet Holmes, social factors and dimension are used to analyze the data. It was also used Jacobson’s theory, the function of speech categories to analyze the addressing terms function. Politeness theory is also used to analyze the data. The result of the research finds that there are eight types of addressing terms in the text play. Those are 77 first name (FN), 76 title followed by a last name (TLN), 13 kinship terms (KT), kinship terms followed by a first name (KTFN), 78 endearment terms (ET), 37 title alone (T), 14 nickname (Nn) and 17 last name (LN). The characters use a certain type of addressing because of several factors. The factors that influence the characters in choosing an addressing type are participants’ relation, setting of social, topic, and function of addressing.

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