An analysis of imperative sentences in a movie entitled “up”

Hasibuan, Irpan (2018) An analysis of imperative sentences in a movie entitled “up”. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Language as the bridge of communication very important in our daily life, the using of language mostly refers to imperative sentences. Certainly, people used imperative sentences as the way to interaction each other. In this research, the researcher describes and analyzes about the imperative sentences in a movie entitled “Up”. The objectives of the research namely (1) to describe the imperative sentences used in a movie entitled “Up” (2) to find dominant of the function imperative sentences in the movie entitled “Up” (3) to explain the reason of imperative sentences used in a movie entitled “Up”. This research used qualitative research as a research design. Then, the researcher selected one of movie “Up” as the primary of data source. Moreover, the data collection used document method and the technique of data analysis used content analysis. The findings for this research were the description of imperative sentences in a movie “Up” has been occurred 68 times in 36 minutes of the movie “Up”. It might see from the percentages; command imperative sentence were 35 (51, 47%), requesting imperative sentence were 8 (11, 76%), inviting imperative sentence were 4 (5, 58%), offering imperative sentence were 11 (16, 17%), advising imperative sentence were 9 (13, 23%). The reasons of using imperative sentence certainly most of the conversation in the story which produced by the characters, the characters almost used command ways to instruct or order something. So, that is the reason why command imperative sentence is dominantly used in a movie “Up” about 35 or 51, 47% used by command ways.

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