A language choice used by the main character in Margarethe Von Trotta's “Hannah Arendt” movie

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Sholikah, Siti Imroatus (2018) A language choice used by the main character in Margarethe Von Trotta's “Hannah Arendt” movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study is a sociolinguistic that focuses on language choice that used by the main character in “Hannah Arendt” movie. In this study, there are two problems of objectives. First, the writer focuses on what is the language choice use by the main character, and second what are the reasons of language choices used by the main character. The aims of this study are to describe the language and the reason of language choice which influence the main character in this movie.In this study, the writer uses descriptive-qualitative approach to capture the language choice. The data are taken from the utterances of the main character in “Hannah Arendt” movie. The theory that used in this research is Janet Holmes theory. The result of the study shows that language chosen by the main character is English. The overall finding of this study reveals that language choice of main character is much influenced factor is addressee. As mention, language choice that dominant use by Hannah in friend and employment is English, it different while Hannah in the family she use German. In addition, based on the social dimensions, the relationship between the addressee and the addresser can be described as close.