A Study of Address Terms Used by Characters in Transformers 1 Movie

This study entitled “A Study of Address Terms Used by Characters in
Transformers 1 Movie. The aim of this study is to describe types of address term
and the social factors that affect the characters of using address term in
Transformers 1movie. The source of data was Transformers 1 movie produced by
Michael Bay. The study was using theory proposed by Ronald Wardhaugh (2006).
The method of this study is qualitative method. First, the writer looked for
Transformers 1 Movie from internet. After that, the writer watched Transformers
1 Movie to get the data and to understand whole of plot the movie. Secondly, the
writer looked for script of Transformers 1 Movie in internet. Third, the writer read
the script of the movie to find utterances that contain address term used by
characters. Fourth, the conversations that contain address term were marked. The
last, the writer created note to identify the data that contain address term.
Then, the result shows that there are five types of address term, they are
address term using name (N) with 8 frequencies, address term using kinship name
(KN) with 5 frequencies, address term using pet name (PN) with 3 frequencies,
address term using title alone (T) with 2 frequencies and address term using title
plus last name (TLN) with 2 frequencies. Furthermore, this study finds five social
factors that affect characters of using address term in Transformers 1 Movie. The
social factors are: social status (ST) with 5 frequencies, family relationship (FR)
with 5 frequencies, age (A) with 5 frequencies, the degree of intimacy (DI) with 3
frequencies and gender (G) with 2 frequencies.