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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelStarting with some problems based on the writer's
experiences in making requests, she determines to improve her
knowledge and collects some information on how to make requests
using English. Then she is interested in studying more about
how to make requests.
In this study, the writer analyzes the types, which are
often used by male and female based on their status, the similar
and different ways between male and female in making requests
and the factors which may influence the usage of a particular
type of request in a certain situation. The writer uses
sociolinguistic approach in analyzing the data, which means
that the writer deals with the social factors. The data are
collected from utterances, which consist of requests made by
characters in the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney
Sheldon. The study is the use of Ervin-Tripp's request forms
and styles in order to show the variation of requests. In
conducting this research, the writer uses the combination of
qualitative and descriptive methods to study the requests. In
analyzing the data, the writer presents the data into tables and
compares them in order to find the similarities and /or
differences requests made by males and females of different
status (superiors, equals, and subordinates).
The writer finds out that, in general, male and female
superiors, equals and subordinates tend to use need statements
and imperatives. However female are more concerned about
status and more polite than male speakers especially when the
status of the female speakers are subordinates. Whereas
imbedded imperatives and non-explicit forms, which are often
used by male and female equals show that among equals status,
the awareness of the speakers are greater than among other
social status.