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An analysis of tact and approbation maxims based on
leech’s politeness principles in the movie
“maid in manhattan”
(a pragmatics study)

THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
for Sarjana Sastra Degree
of the English Department

By:
EKA NURDIANINGSIH
C1304017

FACULTY OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
SURAKARTA
2006

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

A. Research Background

Language is one form of communication. It is the most frequently used
and most highly developed form of human communication. As social creatures,
people need to interact with their fellow human beings. People use language as a
means of communication in their interaction. Language is important for human
being for the communication of ideas, knowledge and intentions. Crystal (1990)
asserts that an act of communication is basically the transmission of information
of some kind of message from a source and a receiver. In the case of language,
both of source and receiver are human, and the message is transmitted vocally,
through the air, or graphically, by marks on a surface, usually paper.
A conversation involves many things which are important in
understanding what the speaker means. For example, when one conveys his
message to someone else, he certainly has a certain purpose. He has an
assumption, and he hopes the hearer understands what he implies in his utterance.
Certainly, the hearer has to try to understand what the speaker means. To be able
to understand the speaker’s meaning, the hearer has to see the voice inflection,
emphasis, intonation, and the context in order to know the purpose.
Within an interaction, we need the concept of politeness. Politeness becomes
a major concern in pragmatics since it is very important in an interaction. Leech
(1983) defines politeness as forms of behaviour that establish and maintain
comity, it is the ability of the participants in a social interaction to engage in

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interaction...

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