A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of the Direct Strategies of Speech Act of Criticizing and Responding to them in the Movie entitled The Duchess

Abstract

This study explored the direct strategies of the speech act of criticizing and the strategies of responding to it in the English movie entitled the Duchess 2008. It is found that the direct strategies of the speech act of criticizing are heavily used, especially the two strategies named Negative Evaluation and Disapproval. Concerning the criticism responses, it is highlighted that the (Offer of Repair) and (Return of Criticism) are the highest strategies used to respond to criticism, occurring (9) times, scoring 19% for each, with respect to other criticism responses strategies found in selected English movie.