ABSTRACT
AN ANALYSIS PRESUPPOSITION BY MAIN CHARACTER
IN THE LAST SAMURAI MOVI E SCRIPT
A THESIS
Submitted In Partial to Fulfillment One Of The Requirements For TheDegree Of Sarjana Sastra
By
NURUL HIDAYAH AZMI
Register Number: 082222810008
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah hirabbil ‘alamin. At the first, the writer would like to thanks to my Lord God Almighty, Allah SWT for His blessing, love, mercy, and gives attitude to her for completed this thesis. And she may not forget her prophet M uhammad SAW for transcending and glorious to the writer.
This Thesis has been written to fulfill the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra at English and Literature Department of Faculty Languages and Arts in the State University of M edan.
The writer is very thankful for many people who helped and always give the support. Even, the writer knows this thesis so far from perfection, but from the suggestions, advices, and critical comments she hope it could be important learning to her in the future. Due to the limited knowledge and experiences, the writer has been helped by many people. Therefore, the writer would like to express her appreciation and special thanks to:
• Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.S i., as the Rector of State University of M edan.
• Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M. Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts State University of M edan.
• Prof. Dr. Hj. S umarsih, M. Pd., and Dra. Rahmah, M. Hum., both as the Head and The Secretary of English Department and her academic consultant. Dra. Meisuri, MA., As the Head of Applied Linguistics. • Dra. S ortha S ilitonga, her thesis consultant for the advices, guidance,
suggestions and all the time in finishing this thesis.
• For all the lecturers throughout her academic years at State University of M edan who have shared their knowledge. Especially, Prof. Amrin S aragih for his inspiration as a good educator to the writer.
• Unforgetable memories and kindness from her best friends, Desi Yunita, S .Pd., Teguh S atria Amin S .Pd., Kiki Sabrina, and Fajar Ikram. • Great thanks to her little sisters and brothers in “Ummi Nikmah
Dormitory”.
• Thanksful for her teachers at Perguruan Al-Azhar M edan.
• Deepest thanks to her friends, brothers, and sisters in, Applied linguistics A and B Classes, HMI KOM ISARIAT FBS UNIM ED and KREATIF UNIM ED.
• And never forget to say thank you to her big families. Specialy, her both grandpa and grandma, her uncles and aunties, cousins and nephews. This life is never complete without your loves’.
Last, thanks is also given to those who have been involved in the accomplishment of this thesis that can’t be mentioned one by one.
M edan, August 2012
The writer
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of The S tudy
Communication is very important in our daily life. As a social being, interaction between one and another needs language. Language is a system of comunication in speech and writing. But, sometimes because of miscommunication the listener does not understand about the speaker means. To avoid that the speaker has to say their utterances clearly.
Language is the most significant and colosal work that human spirit has envolved. Being one of the most characteristic forms of human behavior, it is so familiar feature or our daily life that we rarely pause to think about it. Paul A Gaeng (1971). So, Every people can see represent the characteristic of someone from their language use. Language is not necessary to life but that it is essential to human life. Language is a way communicating meaning from one human mind to another by vocal sounds, gestures, signals, written symbols, or the like.
understand clearly how to find the meaning. Because of that, they can communicate the sentences easier to someone.
The writter interest to investigate presupposition in movie script. According to Nadar(2009:64-65) the meaning of presupposition is the one of kinds of pragmatics. In daily language presupposition also means that any background assumption against which an action, theory, expression or utterance makes sense or is rational. Certain pragmatic inferences or assumptions that seem at least to be built into linguistic expressions. Presupposition can help the speaker find the background meaning of the utterances. So,it make it simple to listener to more understand what the speaker means.
1. 2004 : Be the winner in ASCAP Award category Top Box office
2. 2005 : Be the winner in Award of the Japanese Academy category Best
Foreign Film
3. 2004 : Be the winner in Special Award category Ken Watanabe
4. 2004 : Be the winner in EM MA category Best Film Actor- Tom Cruise 5. 2004 : Be the winner in Hollywood M akeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild
Award category Best Period Hair Styling – Feature
6. 2004 : Be the winner in MTV M ovie Award category Funniest American
in Japan-Tom Cruise
7. 2004: Be the winner in Golden Satelite Award category Best
Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score
8. 2004 : Be the winner in VES Award category Outstanding Supporting
Visual Effects in a M otion Picture
believable and he also handles the action well. Koyuki is also memorable as Taka, the widow of a Samurai warrior who Tom Cruise killed. As she is asked to take care of the wounded Cruise, you can tell underneath her polite, quiet exterior she’s thirsty for revenge. This inner conflict makes her one of the more compelling characters of the movie. This movie also stimulus the viewers to get the education of life from the story. That is why this movie is choosed by writer as the object of this study.
B. The Problem of The S tudy
1. What types of presupposition found by main character in The Last Samurai movie script?
2. What is the most dominant type of presupposition found by main character in The Last Samurai movie script?
3. Why does the dominant type of presupposition become dominant by main character in The Last Samurai movie script?
C. The Objective of The S tudy
1. To find out the types of presupposition by main character in The Last Samurai movie script.
2. To find out the most dominant type of presupposition by main character in The Last Samurai movie script.
D. The S cope of The S tudy
This study analyze about the types of presupposition based on Yule (1996). And the types devide into:
1. Existensial Presupposition. 2. Factive Presupposition. 3. Lexical Presupposition. 4. Structural Presupposition. 5. Non-Factive Presupposition. 6. Counterfactual Presuppsition
This study is limited to the application of presupposition by main character in The Last Samurai movie script.
E. The Significance of The S tudy
The significance of this study are expected to practically useful for:
1. Researcher want to make further their knowledge about pragmatics specially the types of presupposition.
2. Readers in order to get more information about presupposition.
3. To give more information to viewers about how presupposition are used in The Last Samurai movie.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After the writer collected, classified, and analyzed the data, it can be concluded that:
1. The type of presupposition namely: Existential, Factive, Lexical, Structural, Non-factive, and Counterfactual were applied in “The Last Samurai” movie.
2. All of the types of Presupposition used in the dialogue by main character in The Last Samurai movie. They are Existential, Factive, Lexical, Structual, Non-factive, and Counterfactual. The total number of Existential (61,53%), Factive (10,76%), Lexical (4.61%), Structural (4.61%), Non-factive (1,53%) and Counterfactual (16,92%).
3. The must dominant type of presupposition in the dialogue by main character in The Last Samurai movie is Existential Presupposition (61.53%).
B. Suggestion
Based on the results of the research, the suggestions are presented as follows:
1. This study suggested the reader to get more information about presupposition.
2. This study suggested the researcher to make further their knowledge about pragmatics specially the types of presupposition.
3. It is suggested for the next researchers who are interested in pragmatics especially presupposition types to make detail analysis of presupposition in movie.
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