Language style used by main character in legally blonde movie by Amanda Brown

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Lailiyah, Diyah Rohmatul (2018) Language style used by main character in legally blonde movie by Amanda Brown. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research discusses language style used by main character in Legally Blonde movie by Amanda Brown. The aims of this research are to describe kinds of language style that used by main character in Legally Blonde movie, to find out the social factors which influence the main character through the dialogue, and to reveal the function of language style used by the main character.In this research, the writer applied content analysis and descriptive research designs. The data are taken from the utterances of the main character in Legally Blonde movie. The main theory to analyze the data taken from the book entitled: The Styles of Five O’Clock by Martin Joos (1976).As the result of this research, the writer found 54 data which contain language style. The writer found all types of language style. The styles are frozen style found 6 data or 9%, formal style found 16 data or 30%, consultative style found 4 data or 8%, casual style found 14 data or 26%, and intimate style found 14 data or 26%. The most language style used by main character is formal style. Also there are social factors which influence the main character by using SPEAKING component which is Setting, Participant, Ends, Act Sequences, Key, Instrumentalities, Norm, and Genre. Then, the writer found five functions of language style that is expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, and phatic. Expressive function found 12 data or 22%, directive function found 2 data or 4%, referential function found 14 data or 26%, metalinguistic function found 19 data or 35%, and phatic function found 7 data or 13%. The most function used by the main character is metalinguistic function.

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Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Creators:	Creators Email NIM Lailiyah, Diyah Rohmatul Rohmatuldyah@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	Bahasa Inggris Komunikasi Masyarakat
Keywords:	Sosiolinguistics; Language Style; Utterances
Depositing User:	Lailiyah Diyah Rohmatul
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2018 07:47
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2018 07:47
URI:	http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/26517

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