An analysis of language disorders suffered by the main character in IT (2017) movie

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Sartika, Rahma Firliyan Mirza (2020) An analysis of language disorders suffered by the main character in IT (2017) movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

A language disorder is a type of disorder in which the speaker is doing repetition or prolongation of speech sounds, syllables, or words. Stuttering is included in one of the types of language disorder that is an expressive language disorder. The writer researched language disorder in “IT” movie that shows stuttering phenomena suffered by the main character named Bill Denbrough. There are three problems to be solved in this research, (1) what kinds of stuttering are found in the utterances produced by a stuttered boy in “IT” movie, (2) what types of associated behavior experienced by Bill Denbrough found in “IT” movie, (3) what causes of stuttering are suffered by Bill Denbrough in “IT” movie. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. It is descriptive because it described the data from the utterances spoken by Bill Denbrough and his behavior when stuttering from “IT (2017)” movie. Then it is qualitative because the researcher wanted to provide in-depth analysis and give the explanation more detail. The data were taken from a movie script and stuttering words produced by Bill Denbrough. The analysis continued by identifying the associated behavior experienced by Bill Denbrough and finally causes of stuttering suffered by Bill Denbrough by looking at the film and one of the quotations from novel that can support and explain causes Bill stuttering. This study reveals that only four out of six types of stuttering (part-word repetition, whole-word repetition, sound prolongations, and block). There were also three out of four types of associated behavior (head torso limb, audible inhalations and exhalations, and eye behaviors) and cause of his stuttering is include in psychogenic stuttering by looking at the series of event in the novel and the movie. When Bill was three years old, he hit by a car and crashed into the side of the building so it makes him comma for seven hours. Bill tends to be stuttering when he felt relaxed, nervous, or when he tried to cover up lies, while for his associated behavior seen from the way he panic, irritated, and nervous. Then it can be said that only some of the types of stuttering and types of associated behavior revealed and the cause of his stuttering did not found in the film but it can be found in the novel instead.