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| Utterance Analysis of the Main Characters in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Movie and Its Upshot on Designing Selecting Material
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Toni Indra Kurniawan, Bambang Suharjito, Aan Erlyana Fardhani
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Abstract:
Movie as a learning media is an effective source displaying the real use of English by which learners can notice how and why language expressions is used in certain situations. The characters in a movie communicate in conversations to deliver their intention successfully as they perform cooperative efforts and know to follow the mutual accepted direction. This research aims to analyze the utterances of the main character of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) Movie based on Grice Cooperative Principle, particularly his four Maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relevance, and Manner. The Descriptive Qualitative Method was employed as the research design, and the data were obtained by Document Analysis in the form of transcriptions of the utterances from 14 conversations of the main characters. 14 utterances were identified as expressions of intention, which then categorized in four Maxims with reasonable arguments supporting the categorization. Further, the utterances were analyzed and to explain descriptively whether the conversations obey or disobey Grice's Maxims. The analysis result revealed 51 utterances obeyed Grice Cooperative Principle and 5 utterances disobeyed Grice Cooperative Principle. Precisely,12 utterances obey the Maxim of Quantity, but 2 utterances disobey it; 13 utterances obey the Maxim of Quality, but 1 utterance disobeys it; 14 utterances obey the Maxim of Relevance, but none disobey it; and12 utterances obey the Maxim of Manner, but 2 utterances Disobey it. A conclusion can be drawn that most of the conversations in this movie completely follow Grice Cooperative Principle. Accordingly, the researcher concluded that most of the conversations happened in this movie could be used as English teaching material for speaking.
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