Language style used by musicians in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Firda, Arij Almaas (2020) Language style used by musicians in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing the language style used by musicians in the talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This talk show mostly invited musicians to discuss many topics as their guests, and have many language styles and contexts of language to communicate with each other. There is one problem of the study that the researcher answer from this research (1) How the context influences the use of language style used by musicians in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This research used a qualitative approach for understanding, interpreting, and developing the theory of Martin Joos’s. The utterances of the data are from 10 musicians in the talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy and analyzing the contexts influences the use of language style. The data qualified for the criteria from context language style and type of language style used by musicians in the talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The researcher found three contexts in the data. The first context is a high formality, this context found in the formal style and frozen style. The second is high solidarity, the contexts used in the consultative style. The third is a low formality, these contexts used in intimate and casual styles. The first context is a high formality, this context found in the formal style and frozen style because of the context used in the formal situation. The second is high solidarity, the contexts used in the consultative style because the context is when people have good relationships with others and know each other’s, they will have high solidarity friendship automatically. The third is low formality used by intimate and casual style because in low formality the factor can be seen from the situation of the conversation, from the data of the conversation the situation of the participant in the experience segment, games segment, and story segment on the talk show.