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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis is a Discourse Analysis on request expressions made by the main
characters in Friends TV Series. Request is a type of face-threatening acts to both
the requester and the recipient (Blum Kulka et al. 1989, p. 11), and if the requests
are not well delivered, the misunderstanding between the requester and the
recipient can occur. This encourages the writer to investigate requests expressions.
Moreover, in this film, there are some relationships between the main characters
in which role relationship affects the requests, especially the requests used
between the husband and the wife, the ex-boy friend and the ex-girl friend, and
between the close friends. The writer wants to know types of request used by the
main characters in the film, and how role relationship affects the type of requests
used by them. The writer used Ervin-Tripp?s category of requests to classify the
type of requests. The writer used qualitative and quantitative approach to analyze
the utterances of the main characters. The source of the data of this study is the
transcription of the film taken from the internet. The writer found that all of the
three relationships used bald imperatives as their most frequently used type of
requests. It seems that the use of bald imperatives is more influenced by level of
intimacy than role relationship. Further, role relationship seems to affect the use
of other types of requests.