NICKY SAFITRI: AN ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS USED BY
THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE INFORMAL
SITUATION IN CONFESSIONS OF A
SHOPAHOLIC MOVIE DIRECTED BY P. J. HOGAN
In spoken interaction, speakers may frequently employ sets of linguistic
signals as strategies for implementing successful communication. They frequently
used discourse marker as the signal and pause the interaction. Discourse markers
are considered as cues or signals for the reader or the hearer that make cohesion
and coherence, but in fact, these markers are found in various grammatical forms
such as interjections, coordinate idea, conjunction.. etc. And it plays a very
important role for manage our conversation. I chose in Movie, because movie has
spoken language that represents real life conversation. And Confessions of a
Shopaholic was an interesting film because it adapted from the best selling novel
by Sophie Kinsella and has many moral values.
The aims of this research are to find what discourse markers that used by
the main characters in the informal situation in Confessions of a Shopaholics
movie, to find how the main characters used in the informal situation in
Confession of a Shopaholics movie, to find what the discourse marker are mostly
used by the main characters that movie.
The method of this research is Content Analysis method for analyzing and
collecting the data. The data is the form of words conversation by the mains
characters. It used because it is concerning with describing of the data used with
the context. The data of this research taken from a movie entitled Confessions of a
Shopaholic directed by P. J. Hogan. The main theory to analyze the data was
Schiffrin‟s theory.
As the result of this research, the writer found 125 data which contain
discourse markers and about 16 data has been analyzed by the writer. All the data
belongs to six discourse markers as being proposed by Schiffrin, namely marker
of information management, marker of response, discourse connectives, marker of
cause and result, marker of temporal adverb, and marker of information and
participation. The main characters are Rebecca Bloomwood, Suze and Luke
Brandon used discourse marker to make coherent in their conversation turntaking.
It desire to open or close a conversation and for showing turns, joining
ideas together, showing attitude, and generally controlling communication, it
located in the beginning or in the last idea which also from the interlocutor of the
conversation and also stated with context of the situation there. The main
characters mostly used „oh‟ discourse marker as exclamation or interjection with
emotional stated such as surprise, and included in marker of information
managemen
