An Analysis on Language Function Found in “Enchanted” Movie Script

Arum, Puspita (2015) An Analysis on Language Function Found in “Enchanted” Movie Script. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Nova Puspita Arum, Registered number student: 3213113121. 2015. An Analysis on Language Function of “Enchanted” Movie Script. Thesis. English Education Program. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor : Nany Soengkono Madayani, S. S., M. Pd. Keyword : Language function, Movie, Script. Language is used by human in their daily life to do communication each other. Language has many functions based on its purposes. Language function is what we say or write for a specific purpose. In this study the researcher knows that the language function is very important in a discourse like movie script, novel, poetry, etc, because language function can help the reader to understand the message in a discourse. This study focuses on the Analysis of language functions in the movie script of “Enchanted”. The “Enchanted” movie script is good data from discourse analysis study since it has something worth noting is that unity, interconnectedness, meaningfulness and coherence among sentences in the movie script. The problems of this study, were: 1) what kind of language functions found in the script of the movie “Enchanted”? 2) How can the language functions help the reader in understanding the message in the movie “Enchanted”? The purposes of this study were: 1) to know the kind of language functions found in the “Enchanted” movie script, 2) to understand how the language functions help the reader in understanding the messages in the movie “Enchanted”. In this research, the researcher used library study based on its purpose. The data collecting method used is documentation. The researcher used it to collect data of dialogue of the movie script “Enchanted”. The researcher used the Cook’s theory to analyze the language functions, they are: emotive function, directive function, phatic function, poetic function, referential function, metalinguistic function and contextual function. The researcher also used Nurgiantoro’s theory to find messages in the movie script that can be divided into two, were: religious message and social criticism message. Besides that, Nurgiantoro also divide the communicating form of the message into two: the direct communicating and indirect communicating of the message. The findings of this research can be classified into two main points. The first, some language functions found in “Enchanted” movie script, were: emotive function, directive function, phatic function, poetic function, referential function, metalinguistic function and contextual function. The second, the researcher analyzed how language function were meaningful in helping the readers to understand the message in the movie script with the following aspects: 1) the availability of diction, 2) the availability of cohesion, 3) the use of coherence, 4) the use of unity and then she found some messages and communicating form of the message in the movie script.

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