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In this chapter the writer presents background of study, limitation of the study, problem statement, object of the study, benefit of the study, and research paper organization. They are as follows:
A. Background of Study
Human speak and convey their feeling in various ways. The speakers express their feeling by making their words fit with their internal psychology world which is generally known as expressive utterance. Expressive according to Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary (1995: 407) belongs to adjective, which means “showing or able to show one‟s feeling or thought.”
According to Tarigan (1986: 33) expressive utterance is a psychological statement of the speaker to express or state her/his feeling about thanking, congratulating, apologizing, accusing, priding, and condolence.
Human will express something if they attract on something especially with their couple.
There have some learn source studies explored love expression for example; Love Expression in Mixed Blessing Translated into Berkah Penuh Cobaan by Daniel Steel by Aryanik (2011). Then, Needs for Love and
Belongingness in Maclahlan’s Sarah, Plain and Tall Novel: A Humanistic
Psychological Approach by Nasir (2012), and the last Love Expressions Found in Twilight Novel by Stephenie Meyer: a Pragmatics Analysis by Milla
(2011). All those love expression research are analyzed about the type of love expression and its meaning. Then, here the researcher wants to explore again about love expression research with politeness strategy which never analyze before.
Related to the explanation above, the writer is interested in analyzing the love expression in the romance novel. “The Last Promise” novel is one of the best seller novels in New York story between Eliana the girl with a broken family and the new American that looks interested in her eyes named Ross Story. Eliana‟s husband never deserves her, then at the same way. Ross
always helps her when she needs help. And finally they fall in love each other. After many times, Eliana‟s husband named Maurizio knows about their relationship and the problem comes to their life.
Locutionary : the speaker (Eliana) said to the hearer that Eliana is happy because Ross has come to Rendola.
Illocutionary : the utterance is said by Eliana to Ross that Eliana express her feeling that she is very happy. She looks so shining when said that to Ross. Since Ross comes to Rendola, Eliana not feel loneliness again and she never feels very happy like that night before. The intention of the utterance is to showing affection. From this case, the writer is interested to take this phenomenon that also happened in our social life into her research. Many people usually read romantic novel but don‟t understand the illocutionary meaning of the love
expressions exactly. So, the writer makes this research to show one of many way to express the love and know its illocutionary meaning. Then, the people can apply the love expressions everyday in the common dialog.
B. Limitation of the Study
C. Problem Statement
Based on the research background above, the researcher formulates the problem statement as follows:
How is feeling of love expressed in The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans?
Subsidiary research questions are as follows:
1. What are the variations of linguistic forms used to express love on The Last Promise novel by Richard Paul Evans?
2. What are the illocutionary meaning of love expressions used by the speakers in utterances on The Last Promise by novel Richard Paul Evans? 3. What are the politeness strategies of love expressions used by the speaker
in utterances on The Last Promise novel by Richard Paul Evans?
D. Objective of the Study
The writer draws the objectives of the study as follows:
1. To describe the variations of linguistic forms used to express love on The Last Promise novel by Richard Paul Evans.
2. To describe the illocutionary meaning of love expressions used by the speakers in utterances on The Last Promise novel by Richard Paul Evans. 3. To describe the politeness strategies of love expressions used by the
E. Benefit of the Study
The writer expects this research gives the following contribution: 1. Theoretically
a. This research gives contribution in pragmatics study, especially in speech act.
b. The research finding enriches the theories of pragmatics, especially in speech act.
2. Practically
a. Future researcher
The result of this study can be used as a reference, especially those who conduct speech act study.
b. The English teachers
are expected to provide descriptions of speech act of love expressions. It is beneficial for language teaching in particular expressions analysis employing insight from pragmatic.
F. Research Paper Organization
In order to have guidance for either the writer herself in arranging the research, of for the reader in reading the whole content, the writer constructs the research outline. This research paper divided into five chapters.
Chapter II is underlying theory; this chapter concerns the pragmatics,
speech act, love expression, type of sentence, context
Chapter III present research method, which consists of three points: type of research, data and data source, technique of collecting data, and techniques for analyzing data.
Chapter IV discusses data analysis and discussion of the findings. This chapter primarily concern with the analysis of the love expression in The Last Promise novel.
