A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLE IN “WILD CHILD” MOVIE

Maharani, Maharani (2019) A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLE IN “WILD CHILD” MOVIE. undergraduate thesis, ["eprint_fieldopt_institution_Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram" not defined].

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Abstract

Language style is defined as the choice of words used by a specific group of people when speak in a place and in one condition. It is very important for people to express their ideas, people use style depend on with whom they speak and where they speaking too. This research is aimed to analyze language style used by all characters in “Wild Child” movie. The analysis was based on the five language styles proposed in Martin Joos’s theory. The researcher used qualitative method in which the data was collected by watching the movie then finding out the conversation that contains language style. The data in this research were taken from the dialogue of the movie that was transcribed into textual form. The researcher only focuses on conversation containing those 5 types of language style. Later on, the researcher classified them based on the types of language style that were found on the movie, then finding the dominant type of language style. This research obtained two conclusions. The first, the researcher found four types from five types of language style. The second, from those four types, casual style was the dominant type, while frozen style was not found in “Wild Child” movie, for more detail as follows: formal style contains 65 data, consultative style contains 61 data, casual style contains 97 data, and intimate style contains 21 data. It can be concluded from the use of language style; the dominant type of language style is casual style that consisted of 97 data. Keywords: language style, wild child movie.

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Thesis (undergraduate)

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