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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about requests made by the five male and the five female
characters to all characters in the film "Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?". The writer is
interested in analyzing request because in daily life, hardly to deny, people often
produce request consciously or unconsciously to ask for something from other
people. Moreover, speakers can express their requests in the various ways. The
writer wants to reveal the types of request mostly used by the male and female
characters in that film, and attempts to observe and to find the differences and
similarities between the male and female characters? requests. The writer chooses
that film because there are a lot of requests that made by the male and female
characters. In conducting this study, the writer uses a combination between
qualitative and quantitative approach. The data is collected by the three steps.
They are watching the whole part of the film "Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?', and
buying the transcript of that film in QB World Books; identifying and listing
down all the requests; and identifying setting, power, status, and the solidarity of
the characters. In analyzing the data, the writer categorizes the requests into
Trosborg?s theory of requests, groups the data and puts them in the Table, and
calculates in order to get the frequency and percentage. Having analyzed all the
data, the writer finds out that Imperatives are mostly used by the male and female
superiors, equals, and subordinates (the writer divides the male and female
characters into superiors, equals, and subordinates based on their wealth, descent,
occupation, and education). It happens because mostly the characters are
teenagers. It seems that teenagers prefer a straightforward and direct request when
they perform the requests. Besides, the writer finds that a type of request, the
Hedged Performatives, is not used by the characters. It happens because this type
is very formal and oppose with the context in the film "Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?"
(the male and female characters make requests in an informal context).