Representation of Indonesian Children's Politeness in an Animated Film: a Pragmatic Study

This study aims to investigate Indonesian child politeness through speech represented by the character Susanti in the animated film Upin-Ipin. The animated films Upin-Ipin are popular for children in Indonesian society. This film is considered to be interesting because it is a foreign animated film...

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Main Authors: NFN Aswan, Gatut Susanto
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Language:English
Published: Balai Bahasa Kalimantan Tengah 2023-06-01
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Online Access:http://suarbetang.kemdikbud.go.id/jurnal/index.php/BETANG/article/view/833
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description This study aims to investigate Indonesian child politeness through speech represented by the character Susanti in the animated film Upin-Ipin. The animated films Upin-Ipin are popular for children in Indonesian society. This film is considered to be interesting because it is a foreign animated film featuring Indonesian children's characters. Susanti is presented as a representation of Indonesian children in a multicultural society. Seeing this phenomenon, the researcher aims to further explore Susanti’s utterance in the context of politeness. This study focuses on examining Susanti's politeness based on Leech's politeness principles which consists of six maxims. The qualitative method used in this study utilizes a pragmatic approach as an analytical tool. The research data are utterances of Susanti which were collected from eight events in six episodes of the film. The data source was the six episodes uploaded by Les'copaqe YouTube channel. The results of the study show that Susanti's utterances tens to represent the maxim of wisdom. These results show that Susanti’s utterances represented the politeness of Indonesian children, especially in the preschool context, which was in accordance with the background of the character of Susanti.   Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menginvestigasi kesantunan anak Indonesia melalui tuturan yang direpresentasikan oleh tokoh Susanti dalam film animasi Upin dan Ipin. Film animasi Upin dan Ipin merupakan salah satu film animasi anak yang populer di masyarakat Indonesia. Film ini dikatakan menarik karena menjadi salah satu film animasi asing yang memunculkan karakter anak Indonesia. Tokoh Susanti dihadirkan sebagai representasi anak Indonesia dalam masyarakat multikultural. Melihat fenomena itu, penulis menelaah lebih lanjut tuturan tokoh Susanti dalam konteks kesantunan. Secara khusus, penelitian ini berfokus pada kesantunan tokoh Susanti berdasarkan prinsip kesantunan Leech yang terdiri atas enam maksim. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan memanfaatkan pendekatan pragmatik. Data penelitian adalah tuturan tokoh Susanti yang ditemukan dari delapan peristiwa di enam episode film Upin dan Ipintersebut. Sumber data diambil dari kanal Youtube @lescopaque. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, dari delapan peristiwa tutur tokoh Susanti, tuturan tokoh Susanti cenderung didominasi oleh maksim kebijaksanaan. Dari hasil tersebut ditemukan bahwa tuturan tokoh Susanti telah merepresentasikan kesantunan anak Indonesia, khusus dalam konteks prasekolah yang sesuai dengan latar belakang tokoh Susanti.
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spelling doaj.art-c3b271c31b224542be39435672ada4632023-06-11T14:51:55ZengBalai Bahasa Kalimantan TengahSuar Betang1907-56502686-49752023-06-01181798910.26499/surbet.v18i1.833180Representation of Indonesian Children's Politeness in an Animated Film: a Pragmatic StudyNFN Aswan0Gatut Susanto1Universitas Negeri MalangUniversitas Negeri MalangThis study aims to investigate Indonesian child politeness through speech represented by the character Susanti in the animated film Upin-Ipin. The animated films Upin-Ipin are popular for children in Indonesian society. This film is considered to be interesting because it is a foreign animated film featuring Indonesian children's characters. Susanti is presented as a representation of Indonesian children in a multicultural society. Seeing this phenomenon, the researcher aims to further explore Susanti’s utterance in the context of politeness. This study focuses on examining Susanti's politeness based on Leech's politeness principles which consists of six maxims. The qualitative method used in this study utilizes a pragmatic approach as an analytical tool. The research data are utterances of Susanti which were collected from eight events in six episodes of the film. The data source was the six episodes uploaded by Les'copaqe YouTube channel. The results of the study show that Susanti's utterances tens to represent the maxim of wisdom. These results show that Susanti’s utterances represented the politeness of Indonesian children, especially in the preschool context, which was in accordance with the background of the character of Susanti.   Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menginvestigasi kesantunan anak Indonesia melalui tuturan yang direpresentasikan oleh tokoh Susanti dalam film animasi Upin dan Ipin. Film animasi Upin dan Ipin merupakan salah satu film animasi anak yang populer di masyarakat Indonesia. Film ini dikatakan menarik karena menjadi salah satu film animasi asing yang memunculkan karakter anak Indonesia. Tokoh Susanti dihadirkan sebagai representasi anak Indonesia dalam masyarakat multikultural. Melihat fenomena itu, penulis menelaah lebih lanjut tuturan tokoh Susanti dalam konteks kesantunan. Secara khusus, penelitian ini berfokus pada kesantunan tokoh Susanti berdasarkan prinsip kesantunan Leech yang terdiri atas enam maksim. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan memanfaatkan pendekatan pragmatik. Data penelitian adalah tuturan tokoh Susanti yang ditemukan dari delapan peristiwa di enam episode film Upin dan Ipintersebut. Sumber data diambil dari kanal Youtube @lescopaque. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, dari delapan peristiwa tutur tokoh Susanti, tuturan tokoh Susanti cenderung didominasi oleh maksim kebijaksanaan. Dari hasil tersebut ditemukan bahwa tuturan tokoh Susanti telah merepresentasikan kesantunan anak Indonesia, khusus dalam konteks prasekolah yang sesuai dengan latar belakang tokoh Susanti.http://suarbetang.kemdikbud.go.id/jurnal/index.php/BETANG/article/view/833charactermaximprinciple of politenessupin and ipin
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