American southern dialect used by the main characters in "Gone Girl" movie

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Wulandari, Nur Fitri (2018) American southern dialect used by the main characters in "Gone Girl" movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

The research problem of this research is (1) what is the pattern of American Southern dialect used by the main characters in “Gone Girl” movie and (2) what is the factor which influences of American Southern dialect used by the main characters in “Gone Girl” movie. The aims of this study are to describethepatternofAmerican Southern dialect thatoccurin “Gone Girl” movie. This research uses qualitative methode since the data is presented in the the form of words, phrases, clause, sentences, or utterances not as numbers.The data are words, phrases, clause, or sentences from the main characters’ utterance of “Gone Girl” movie and the data source is movie and transcript. The researcher found 29 data that related with American English dialect which consist of twenty seven as phonological features, one data as grammatical feature, and one data as vocabulary variation. According to the data from the main characters’ utterance, the researcher state that the dominant pattern of American Englsih dialect in “Gone Girl” movie is phonological features which consist of unstressed the nasal sound of [ŋ], dropping the plosive sound of [d], dropping the fricative sound of [h], dropping the plosive sound of [t], dropping the fricative sound of [ð] and contracting pronunciation. From the data collected, the phonological features hastwenty seven data found.