AN ANALYSIS OF ANGER EXPRESSIONS AS FOUND IN “DORAEMON” COMICS WRITTEN BY FUJIKO F.FUJIO

Abstract

The paper deals with the words usedto express emotion such as anger. According to Morgan
(1956) “angry is the response or reaction from the resistant or frustration of what one what wants
to do or say”. Data of the study were taken from a number of Doraemon comics books and some
of Doraemon comics downloaded from the internet. The method used in this research is
qualitative research stated by Moleong (2006). The theories used in the analysis are speech acts
theory (Yule, G. 1996), emotional expression (Ekman, P. 1999), and verbal communication
(Fiehler, R. 2002). After analyzing the data, the writer finds that there are three classifications of
anger, namely anger, dislike, and annoying.

Keywords: basic emotion, anger expression, speech act, discourse analysis, context.