Address Terms in Indonesian Screen Dialogue: A Corpus Analysis of 5 cm and Gundala
Abstract
Address terms are linguistic resources that are not only used to address or identify interlocutors but can also contribute to the formation of interpersonal relationships in interactions. This study aims to analyze the form, interactional function, and relational positioning of address terms in Indonesian film dialogues. The study uses a corpus-assisted qualitative pragmatic analysis approach with data from the ProSub corpus covering the films 5 cm and Gundala. The corpus consists of 2,473 raw records and produces 527 address-term occurrences, namely 335 occurrences from 5 cm and 192 occurrences from Gundala. Quantitative analysis is used to map the distribution of address terms across all occurrences, while interactional functions and relational implications are analyzed contextually in selected excerpts. The results show that personal naming-based addressing is the dominant group. Full personal names, shortened or modified personal names, and nicknames reach 255 occurrences or 48.39% of the total data. Contextual analysis shows that a single form of address term can perform different functions, including attention/summons, recipient orientation, action targeting, greeting/recognition, affiliation, and deference. Address repetition was found in 93 occurrences or 17.65% of the data and functions as a feature that can strengthen attention to the recipient, urgency, and emotional involvement. At the relational level, address terms contribute to the formation of intimacy, solidarity, social distance, and power/deference. The research findings indicate that the interactional and relational value of address terms is contextual and cannot be determined solely based on lexical form. This research contributes to the study of Indonesian pragmatics by integrating variations in form, interactional function, and relational positioning in the analysis of screen dialogue.
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