EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS OF L OVE AND SADNESS IN THE BEST OF ME MOVIE

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This research aims at describing how the words literally and non-literally used to express the emotions of

love and sadness and the contexts that influence such emotional expressions. This study uses qualitative

method in describing and explaining the results. Some theories used were taken from Parrot (2001),

Fiehler (2002), Kovecses (1990), Crabtree (1991), Yanti, Y. (2013). The writer represents the data analysis

in descriptive paragraph. There are 19 expressions of such emotions. The detail as follows: (1) literal

words of love emotions, (2) non literal words of love emotions, (3) literal words of sadness and (4) non

literal words of sadness. There are four types of contexts that influence the emotion in this movie:

physical context, social context, linguistic and epistemic context, but the epistemic context is more

dominant to influence the emotional expressions of love and sadness.

Keywords: basic emotions,love emotions, sadness emotions, context