A Study of Pre-Sequences in Lea to the Rescue Movie

This study is concerned with pre-sequences. This study used Yule (1996)
theory to analyzed pre-sequence in Lea to the Rescue movie. Relating to the
statement above, this study was intended to answer two formulated research
problems, namely; (1) what are the types of pre-sequences found in Lea to the
Rescue movie? And (2) what are the functional features of pre-sequences found in
Lea to the Rescue movie? Those problems were related with the utterances in Lea
to the Rescue Movie.
This study used descriptive qualitative design. The source of data was Lea
to the Rescue Movie. The data were all of the utterances by the characters in Lea
to the Rescue Movie that contained pre-sequences. The main instrument in
collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data was the writer herself. The method
to collect the data was content analysis. The method to analyze the data was
interactive data analysis.
The data of this study showed that there were forty data that were found by
the writer. The data consist of twenty data of pre-request, nineteen data of preannouncement
and
one
datum
of
pre-invitation.
The
data
also
consist
of
functional

features
of
pre-sequences.
There
were

four forms and fourty data that were found
in this study, twenty data in the form of declarative sentence related to the
notifying, expressing wishes, guessing, introducing, reminding an expressing,
surveying and confirming, eighteen data in form of interrogative sentence to the
explaining, notifying, surveying, guessing, suggesting, begging, warning,
availability, confirming, offering, and persuading two data in the form of
imperative sentence related to the persuading and begging and none of data in the
form of exclamatory sentence. All of the data are utterances in Lea to Rescue
Movie.

Keywords: Pre-sequences, Pre-sequences in Request, Pre-sequences in
Announcement, Pre-sequences in Invitation, Forms of Presequences.