Socio-Pragmatic Functions of Racial Discrimination in Oscar Movie: Get Out

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the racial discrimination in the movie linguistically. More particularly, it investigates the socio-pragmatic functions that are utilised in the movie to realise racial discrimination which in this case is directed against the Blacks in America. The analysis is conducted with reference of discriminatory Sociopragmatic functions model that presented by Graumann and Wintermantel (1989) to deal with the linguistic patterns of racial discrimination in informal interpersonal interactions. The results show that the dominant social functions of racial discrimination in Get Out movie is the separation and fixation while the discriminatory evaluation does not appear in the analysed data. The results also display that the characters in Get Out movie express their racial discriminations mainly in direct and explicit ways.