Intimate language style used by the chracters of" The Last Song" Movie by Nicholas Sparks

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Prasetya, Tri Aditya (2018) Intimate language style used by the chracters of" The Last Song" Movie by Nicholas Sparks. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis presents intimate style used by the characters of The Last Song(2010) movie. It analyzes the intimate utterances used by the characters in the movie. This study has two research problems. The aims of this research are to find the intimate styles used by characters, and to reveal the factors influence the characters uses intimate style. In this research, the researcher applied descriptive qualitative design. The data of this research is in form of movie transcript. The main theory which was used in this research is taken from the book under the title The Style of Five O’clock by Martin Joss(1976) and the book of An introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes(1992).The result of this research shows that the researcher has found 31 utterances of intimate style.As the result, it finds Jargon with 4 data, Close friend relationship with 5 data, Extraction with 5 data, Family relationship with 10 data, and Addressee characteristics with 7 data . There are four social factors that influence characters to use intimate style. The first factor is Participant. The participant of this movie has very close relationship such as Family’s member or Close Friend. The second factor is Topic. The topic that discussed in this movie is about private topics, deep, and sometimes talking about love. The third is setting. The conversation in the movie often settled in some informal and private places such as beach, house and so on. The fourth factor is function. The function of the utterances which produced by the characters are various. But most of them has purpose to convey or to show their intimacy about each other.