A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF COMMANDING UTTERANCES IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA MOVIE MANUSCRIPT

摘要

This research deals with commanding utterances in the devil wears prada movie manuscript. The aims of this research are to identify the forms and to describe implicature of commanding utterances in the devil wears prada movieudmanuscript. The researcher employs the descriptive qualitative as a type of the research. The data source of this research is the devil wears prada movie manuscript. Theudmethod of collecting data is documentation and the steps are reading, selecting and collecting, and coding the data. The techniques of analyzing data are describing the form by referring to linguistics form and analyzing the impliatureudbased on the context of pragmatics. This result of the analysis shows the variation of the forms and implicatureudof commanding utterances used in the devil wears prada movie manuscript. The variations of forms are presented in the form of sentence types. The types are: (1) Declarative, (2) Interrogative, and (3) Imperative Sentence. The implicature of the commanding utterances implies the meaning of conventional implicature by inferring the meaning based on the grammatical form and conversationaludimplicature by inferring the meaning based on the background knowledge assumed to be shared by the speaker and hearer.