%A NIM. 09150071 SITI ROKHMAH 
%O Pembimbing :  Ulyati Retnosari

%T ADDRESSING TERMS IN OSCAR WILDE’S
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST


%X 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.


%K Keywords: addressing terms, social factors, function of speech, and
Sociolinguistic




%D 2014
%I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA
%L digilib13159