THE USE OF MACRO FUNCTION IN TENNESSE WILLIAM’S DRAMA “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE” DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Authors

  • Citra Buana Halil Khairun University
  • Azzan Wafiq Agnurhasta Khairun University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33387/tekstual.v21i1.6288

Abstract

This article aims to know particular types of macro function and how its appear in the utterances on the drama. The writer uses purposive sampling technique to choose which sample were to be analyzed. The data were determined according to it needs and purpose of this research. The writer found some samples from this research. There are seventy samples which called hard sample. The result of this research is macro functions further divided into types but the writer only take five function namely: emotive (10), metalinguistic(13), directive (18), phatic (6), and referential (2).

Keywords: Macro Function, Drama, and Discourse Analysis

Author Biographies

Citra Buana Halil, Khairun University

Khairun Univesity, Indonesia

Azzan Wafiq Agnurhasta, Khairun University

Khairun University

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Published

2023-07-03