Proceedings of the International Seminar SEMANTIKS & PRASASTI 2023 Theme: Language in the Workplace (PRASASTI 2023)

The Affect System on Protagonist Characters’ Responses toward Racism in the Film 12 Years a Slave

Authors
Rahmaditya Khadifa Abdul Rozzaq Wijaya2, 1, *, Djatmika Djatmika3, Riyadi Santosa3, Tri Wiratno3
1English Study Program, Law, and Business Faculty, Duta Bangsa University, Surakarta, Indonesia
2Doctoral Program of Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
3Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: rahmadityakhadifaarw@student.uns.ac.id
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Rahmaditya Khadifa Abdul Rozzaq Wijaya
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Abstract

This research aims to find out about the affect system in protagonist character’s responses toward racism. All data got from the utterances of protagonist characters that contain about the feeling from them. The data classified into affect system that consist of positive and negative. Another element of affect can be classified into direct and implicit. The data source is the film 12 Years a Slave. Data collection technique conducted by transcribing the dialogues of the film and classify them to the affect system from appraisal theory. After that, the data analyzed depends on affect system from appraisal theory. The result of this study are all protagonist characters shared about the positive and negative affect system. They shared about their feeling of negative affect, because they frustrated with their life. They also shared the positive feeling because they still have energy to struggling for their free.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Seminar SEMANTIKS & PRASASTI 2023 Theme: Language in the Workplace (PRASASTI 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
23 December 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-162-3_37
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-162-3_37How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Riyadi Santosa
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