Language Styles Used By The Main Character in Turning Red Movie

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Permatasari, Sinta (2022) Language Styles Used By The Main Character in Turning Red Movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing language style in Turning Red movie which shows the language style occurring in Turning Red movie. There are two problems to be research, there are (1) What types of language style used by the main character of Turning Red movie (2) What the functions of language style used by the main character of Turning Red. This study uses qualitative approach in relation to the use of clear and systematic description about the phenomena being studied. The research data from this studied contain some of the utterances contained in Turning Red animation movie which the researcher watched the movie. The source data of this research an American animation movie entitled Turning Red, utterances or conversation from the film. Therefore, the subject of this study is main character, Meilin Lee. The researcher collected the data by watching the movie and reading the movie script, after that the researcher found the types of language styles using Martin Joos's theory and the function of language styles using Roman Jakobson's theory that exist in the movie that already chosen. As the result of this research, the researcher found 30 data that contain language style. The researcher found three types of language styles there are frozen style found in one data, intimate style found three data, and the casual style found in 26. The language style used by the main character is casual style. Then, the researcher found five functions of language styles, there are expressive function found in three data, directive function found in three data, referential function found in five data, metalinguistic function found in three data, and phatic function found in two data. The most function used by the main character is referential.