Exploring indirect expressions of negative attitudes reflecting untruthfulness in American drama films

บทพินิจความลวงในภาษาซึ่งสะท้อนผ่านการแสดงทัศนคติเชิงลบทางอ้อมในภาพยนตร์อเมริกันแนวชีวิติ

Name: Pakanan Sisuk

LCSH: Burapha University.Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

LCSH: Motion pictures, American -- History and criticism

LCSH: Philology

LCSH: Americans -- Communication

LCSH: Motion pictures, American -- Language

LCSH: Truthfulness and falsehood in literature

Abstract: This study aimed to comprehend untruthfulness by exploring the indirect expressions of negative attitudes, abbreviated as IENAs, in verbal interactions among the mainstream Americans. The purposes of this thesis were first to investigate the four different “types of IENAs” used in each age group of the mainstream Americans and second to identify the underlying “subtypes of IENAs”. The 749 samples spoken by the mainstream American characters from three American drama films released in 2014 were collected. Some extraneous findings counted as proofs to verify existence of the mixed types of IENAs were found altogether 27 samples among the authentic verbal interactions, and not considered as the overlapping results of the study. To be specific, the mainstream American characters varied by their age groups (e.g. adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and later maturity) are likely to flout the quality maxim in form of IENAs most when in their middle adulthood and least in later maturity. In the first place, the mainstream American teenagers in adolescence (13-19 years old) produced untruthfulness (type: rhetorical devices / subtype: insertion) in order to express themselves towards new relationship and to be able to embrace selfdependence. People in this age group were expected to have space in the world peacefully with self-taught values and ethical mindset. However, the neutralized IENAs were found in early adulthood. The type “rhetorical devices” with the subtype ‘insertion’ and the type “paralinguistic cues” with the subtype ‘slow speaking rate’ were significantly mentioned. All individuals age between 19-30 years old have personal rights to start a family and take on civic responsibility. People in early adulthood were said to be in a threshold of life with countless decisions to make and with all emotions to control (joy, anger, disgust or honesty). Next, the mainstream Americans in their middle adulthood (31-60 years old) were seen to produce diplomatic untruthfulness; the mostly-used subtypes under the type “rhetorical devices” were to be discussed: generalizing, rhetorical questions, metaphor, converted ideas, and derogatory remarks. With a quite complex and well-organized thinking process to live a life, the language they use can reflect their diplomatic status in most of the conversations disregarding pros and cons in mind. The last focus of the discussion was the type “rhetorical devices” with the subtype ‘stylistic expressions’ found in later maturity. The mainstream Americans in later maturity thus chose to be more conservative when they employed IENAs according to their defensive strategy to get over both of what is forgettable and memorable (i.e. a life after retirement, a decreasing income, death of a spouse etc.). All of the cause mentioned made these people who were aged more than 61 years old tended to produce untruthfulness in a very specific way; they intended to use a shortened string of words rather than delivering an imprecise and longer sentence.

Burapha University. Library

Address: CHONBURI

Email: buulibrary@buu.ac.th

Name: Ubon Dhanesschaiyakupta

Role: Principal advisor

Created: 2017

Modified: 2020-06-09

Issued: 2020-06-09

วิทยานิพนธ์/Thesis

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CallNumber: Th 791.4375 Pa15E

eng

DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English for communication

Grantor: Burapha University

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