Speech Styles Performed by The main Characters in “ The King’s Speech”

Anugrahsuci, Safitri (2014) Speech Styles Performed by The main Characters in “ The King’s Speech”. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Advisor: Dr. Nurul Chojimah, M.Pd Keywords: Speech styles, The main characters, SPEAKING component. Language function can be devide based on the use, the instrument, and the degree of formality.Chaer and Agustin (2007) explained in their book that Martin Joos has devide language variety based on degree of formality, they are called as The five clocks ( Frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style and intimate style ). This research discuss about the speech styles performed by the main characters of “ The King’s Speech” Movie. In this research, the researcher conducts two problems of the research which are: (1) What speech style are performed by the main characters in “ The King’s Speech” Movie? (2) What factors that influence the main characters use speech styles in “The King’s Speech” Movie? The main theory to answer the problems of the research is the theory of speech style by Martin Joos (1967, cited in Broderick 1976 ) and also theory of Dell Hymes about SPEAKING component that taken by Chaer and Agustin (2004) to support the researcher find the factors that influence the main characters use speech styles. This research uses qualitative research since the data of the research are in the form of words rather than numbers. The researcher uses transcription of the main characters’ utterances to be analyzed. The data of this research are the main characters utterance containing speech styles. Based on Martin Joos theory ( Frozen style, formal style, consultative style,casual and intimate style ) the researcher found the speech styles that used, they are frozen style that only occurs once or 1%, formal style in 12 utterances or 16%, consultative style occurs 11 utterances or 15%, casual style is the mostly used by the main characters occurs 32 times or 43%, and Intimate style occurs in 18 utterances or 24%.The factors that influence the main characters used speech style is explained by the researcher supported by Dell Hymes’s Theory. The factors they are Setting and scene, Participant, End ( purpose of the conversation), Act ( message that contain in the utterances), Key (intonation ,spirit when deliver the message),Instrument (the language deliver orally or written), Norm ( the norms when conduct interaction), and Genre (kinds of delivery)

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