A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLE IN

“WILD CHILD” MOVIE

A THESIS

Presented as A Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Bachelor Degree

in English Language Education

By

DINDA DWI MAHARANI

11512A0007

MUHAMMADIYAHUNIVERSITY OF MATARAM
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM
MATARAM
2019
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 MOTTO

“Let’s do what we love and do a lot of it”

(Marc Jacobs)

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 DEDICATION

This thesis is dedicated to:

 My (late) beloved parent Drs. Suhardi Andung and Maryam Adam, your

advices have always given me strength to this day and I still value

everything you had given me.

 My sister and brother, Siti Magvira and Moch. Kamel Firdaus for their

endless support, pray, and long-lasting love.

 My uncle, H. Soeparman Andung for his big support.

 All my rangers: Aliffita Novanti, Arsitha Indah N. Hakiki, Liss Silvianti

Putri, Ananda Pandan, Abdul Wahid Ramdhani, Muhammad Muji

Miftahudin, Rusyadinata, and Zulfirzi Zas for always being in

togetherness, craziness, laugh, love, and helping each other through tough

times.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

All praises be to Allah SWT, the Creator of the world, the Lord of the

universe, the Almighty, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful, for all the

blessings without which the researcher would never have accomplished this thesis

writing. In this thesis, the researcher owe to many people for the support,

guidance, assistance and help. The sincere gratitude is delivered to:

1. Drs. H. Arsyad Abdul Gani, [Link], as the Rector of Muhammadiyah

University of Mataram.

2. Dr. Hj. Maemunah, M.H, as the Dean of Faculty of Teacher Training and

Education.

3. Hidayati, [Link]., as the head of English Education Program and also as

the first consultant who gave the researcher advice, great guidance,

suggestion and recommendation for graduating this thesis from beginning

until the end.

4. Muhammad Hudri, [Link]. as the second consultant for the encouragement,

guidance and important advises in helping the researcher throughout this

thesis from the beginning until the end.

5. My late beloved parents who has become the researcher’s inspiration to

keep learning especially in academic level as they desired before, also to

all my beloved families who gives me all the support, pray, and help.

6. All of the lecturers in English Department of Muhammadiyah University

of Mataram who had given the knowledge patiently.

7. All of the staffs who helped the researcher in processing administration.

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 8. All of the classmates in class A “2015”, thanks for togetherness in the

class.

Finally, this thesis is expected to be able to provide useful knowledge and

information to the readers and the researcher pleased to accept more suggestion

and contribution from the reader for improvement of the thesis.

Mataram, August 2019

Dinda Dwi Maharani

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 ABSTRACT

Maharani, D.D., 2019 “A Sociolinguistics Analysis of Language style in “Wild

Child Movie.” Undergraduate Thesis of: English Education
Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,
Muhammadiyah University of Mataram. Advisors: 1) Hidayati,
S,Pd.,[Link], 2) Muhammad Hudri, [Link].,[Link]

Language style is defined as the choice of words used by a specific group of

people when speak in a place and in one condition. It is very important for people
to express their ideas, people use style depend on with whom they speak and
where they speaking too. This research is aimed to analyze language style used by
all characters in “Wild Child” movie. The analysis was based on the five language
styles proposed in Martin Joos’s theory. The researcher used qualitative method in
which the data was collected by watching the movie then finding out the
conversation that contains language style. The data in this research were taken
from the dialogue of the movie that was transcribed into textual form. The
researcher only focuses on conversation containing those 5 types of language
style. Later on, the researcher classified them based on the types of language style
that were found on the movie, then finding the dominant type of language style.
This research obtained two conclusions. The first, the researcher found four types
from five types of language style. The second, from those four types, casual style
was the dominant type, while frozen style was not found in “Wild Child” movie,
for more detail as follows: formal style contains 65 data, consultative style
contains 61 data, casual style contains 97 data, and intimate style contains 21 data.
It can be concluded from the use of language style; the dominant type of language
style is casual style that consisted of 97 data.

Keywords: language style, wild child movie.

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Maharani, D.D., 2019 "Analisis Sosiolinguistik gaya bahasa dalam “Film Wild
Child.” Tesis Sarjana: Program Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris,
Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas
Muhammadiyah Mataram. Penasihat: 1) Hidayati, S,Pd.,
[Link], 2) Muhammad Hudri, [Link]., [Link]

Gaya bahasa didefinisikan sebagai pilihan kata-kata yang digunakan oleh

sekelompok orang tertentu ketika berbicara di suatu tempat dan dalam satu
kondisi. Sangat penting bagi orang untuk mengekspresikan ide-ide mereka, orang
menggunakan gaya bahasa tergantung pada siapa mereka berbicara dan di mana
mereka berbicara juga. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis gaya bahasa
yang digunakan oleh semua karakter dalam film "Wild Child". Analisis ini
didasarkan pada lima gaya bahasa yang diusulkan dalam teori Martin Joos.
Peneliti menggunakan metode kualitatif di mana data dikumpulkan dengan
menonton film kemudian menemukan percakapan yang berisi gaya bahasa. Data
dalam penelitian ini diambil dari dialog film yang ditranskripsi menjadi bentuk
teks. Peneliti hanya fokus pada percakapan yang mengandung 5 jenis gaya bahasa
tersebut. Kemudian, peneliti mengklasifikasikan mereka berdasarkan jenis gaya
bahasa yang ditemukan di film, kemudian menemukan jenis gaya bahasa yang
dominan. Penelitian ini memperoleh dua kesimpulan. Yang pertama, peneliti
menemukan empat jenis dari lima jenis gaya bahasa. Yang kedua, dari keempat
jenis itu, gaya kasual adalah jenis dominan, sedangkan gaya beku tidak ditemukan
dalam film "Wild Child", untuk lebih detail sebagai berikut: gaya formal berisi 65
data, gaya konsultatif berisi 61 data, gaya kasual berisi 97 data, dan gaya intim
berisi 21 data. Dapat disimpulkan dari penggunaan gaya bahasa; jenis gaya bahasa
yang dominan adalah gaya kasual yang terdiri dari 97 data.

Kata kunci: gaya bahasa, film wild child.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ..................................................................................................... i

APPROVAL SHEET .......................................................................................... ii
ACCEPTANCE ................................................................................................... iii
MOTTO ............................................................................................................... iv
DEDICATION ..................................................................................................... v
STATEMENT OF AUTHORITY ..................................................................... vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................... vii
ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................... ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................... iv

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study ........................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of the Problems ......................................................... 4
1.3 Purpose of the Study .................................................................. 4
1.4 Significance of the Study .......................................................... 4
1.5 Scope of the Study .................................................................... 5
1.6 Definitions of Key Terms ......................................................... 5

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Sociolinguistics ......................................................................... 7
2.1.1 Language Variation ............................................................. 8
[Link] Dialect ............................................................................ 9
[Link] Accent ............................................................................ 9
[Link] Register .......................................................................... 10
[Link] Jargon ............................................................................. 11
[Link] Slang ............................................................................... 11
2.1.2 Style ..................................................................................... 12
[Link] Language Style ............................................................... 12
[Link] Kinds of Language Style ................................................ 14
[Link] Function of Language Style ........................................... 17
2.2 Movie ........................................................................................ 19
2.3 Related Studies ......................................................................... 20

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 Research Design ....................................................................... 22
3.2 Data Source ............................................................................... 22
3.3 Research Instruments ................................................................ 23
3.4 Procedure of the Data Collection .............................................. 23
3.5 Data Analysis Technique .......................................................... 24

CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Result ........................................................................................ 26
4.1.1 Types of Language Style in Wild Child Movie ................... 26
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 4.1.2 The Dominant Types of Language Style in the Movie ....... 43
4.2 Discussions ............................................................................... 44

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

5.1 Conclusion ................................................................................ 47
5.2 Suggestion ................................................................................. 48

BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the general issues to present study. This chapter

covers the background of the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the

study, significance of the study, scope of the study and definitions of key terms.

1.1 Background of the Study

In human life, language is a tool that must be owned by human-being to

communicate with one another. The language product of communications has

several forms, such as for requesting something, giving information, entertaining,

and others. By language, people are able to socialize and to communicate one

another for whatever they do. It is through conversation in which people can

convey their messages so that interaction and communication can be created. The

study of language that related to society is called Sociolinguistics which consists

of two words, Socio means social or related to society and Linguistics means the

science of language. Fishman in Wardhaugh (2010:16) says that sociolinguistics

should encompass everything from considering “who speaks (or writes) what

language (or what language variety) to whom and when and to what end”.

According to Meyerohff (2006:27), language style also describes the

personality, mindset, condition of human. The condition of human can created

human’s language style. For example, very formal language will be used when a

president delivers a speech in front of the citizen. It happens because the context is

formal, and has special purposes to deliver such kind of information. The

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conditions are completely different when a father talks to a mother. Father usually

uses intimate language with mother as far as it can be understandable. Intimate

language used when both participants have a close relationship. For example,

between spouses, they commonly use the word “honey”, “baby”, or another call

name specially used in their environment only. When someone has normal

condition it will be different from regular condition. That is happen in movie and

novel when we see in language style perspective.

The role of language is to transfer idea or information from speaker to

hearer through communication. It has various different styles and its style has an

important role to deliver the purpose of social interaction to understand the

meaning from the social communication in language. By its style also make it

easier to understand it by whom the language is spoken. In linguistic, language

style include into scope of semantic. According to Martin Joos (1976), language

has five styles. He recognized five different language styles namely: frozen style,

formal style, consultative style, casual style and intimate style.

One of the ways to know language style is by watching movie. There are

many movies which are discussing about language style. In this thesis, the

researcher selects a movie “Wild Child” as the thesis object. “Wild Child” tells

about sixteen-year-old Poppy (Emma Roberts) who is a self-obsessed, naughty

brat who lives by a spoiled life in her L.A. world. After she threw a wild party, her

father (Aidan Quin) sent her to Abbey Mount, a highly old-fashioned conservative

girls’ boarding school in England. She becomes unhappy with her new

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surroundings and the strict rules of this institution, makes her become rebels. She

behaves in disrespectful ways and unfriendly.

There some language styles are used in this movie by their conversation.

Recalling the language style is a study which frequently relates with social

context. As we learn the language styles, it is difficult to separate with the society.

The conversation or dialogue below is the example of language style produced by

the characters of the movie and verb formed from noun occurred in this dialogue.

Mrs. Kingsley : Hello Poppy. Welcome to Abbey Mount.

I’m Mrs. Kingsley, your headmistress.

Poppy : Look, I understand you are just....

Some researchers have done researches on language styles, one of them is

Galuh (2007) in his thesis “A Study of Speech Style Used by the Host in “Empat

Mata” Talk Show Program on Trans 7”. This study uses Martin Joos theory and

some supporting theory such as Nababan (1993) and Gleason (1965). In this

study, Galuh used descriptive qualitative. He took two differences episodes of the

talk show as the data source to represent the speech style. He recorded the host

utterances to be transcribed. Then he identified the utterances by the host based on

the classification of speech style whether frozen, formal, consultative, casual, and

intimate style.

After reading the previous study above, the researcher categorized the

words in the Wild Child movie into five types of language style according to

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Martin Joos. Based on the explanation and the previous study, the researcher

understood the kinds of characteristic of each styles.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Based on the background of study above, this research proposes the main

problem as follows:

a. How many types of language style are used in “Wild Child” movie based

on Martin Joos theory?

b. What is the most dominant type of language style in “Wild Child” movie

based on Martin Joos theory?

1.3 Purpose of the Study

The purposes of this study that represent what this research wants to

accomplish are described as follows:

a. To analyze the type of language style based on Martin Joos in “Wild

Child” movie.

b. To identify the dominant type of language style in “Wild Child” movie.

1.4 Significance of the Study

In this thesis, the researcher also expects to achieve some significance for

the readers:

a. Theoretically, the result of this research is supposed to give some

significant contributions to the readers in some ways to enrich their

knowledge about the type of language style used in the “Wild Child”

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 movie. However, the researcher hopes that the readers have quite

understanding about how to use a language style in other text.

b. Practically, this research hopefully has some benefit for all students,

especially at English Department students who are interested in

sociolinguistics and be able to apply their knowledge and comprehend

language style in the appropriate daily conversation, especially in formal

situation and in several different conditions.

1.5 Scope of the study

The scope of this research is Sociolinguistic, especially about language style

used in the movie “Wild Child”. In this research, the researcher use

sociolinguistics theory by Martin Joos (1976) which discusses the five language

styles, encompassing: Frozen style, Formal style, Consultative style, Casual style,

and Intimate style. The researcher focuses on the conversations which are used in

the movie in analyzing several words and how many types of language style are in

the script. From the data that obtained by the researcher, the researcher only

describes a few examples of language style from the results of the analysis.

1.6 Definitions of Key Terms

In order to avoid misunderstanding about the use of terms, it is important for

the researcher to give the suitable meaning of the key terms. Some terms are defined

as follows:

a. Sociolinguistics

“The study of language that is related to society is called

Sociolinguistics which consists of two words: Socio means social or

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 related to society and Linguistics means the science of language.”

(Fishman in Wardhaugh, 2010:16)

b. Language Style

Language style is defined as the choice of words used by a specific

group of people when speak in a place and in one condition. It is very

important for people to express their ideas, people use style depend on

with whom they speak and where they speaking too.

c. Wild Child

Wild Child is a teen drama comedy film that released in 2008 and

directed by Nick Moore and written by Lucy Dahl. This movie tells

about sixteen-years-old Poppy (Emma Roberts) that is a self-obsessed

and spoiled brat. This movie played by Emma Roberts, Kimberley

Nixon, Juno Temple, Linzey Cocker, Sophie Wu, Alex Pettyfer and

Georgia King.

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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter presents definitions of some relevant related literature, several

supporting theories and previous studies that are used to guide the process of this

research. The researcher focuses on Language Style that is used in the movie

entitled “Wild Child”. This study takes utterances script from the movie. The

researcher uses a language to share the idea by using a script movie. As everyone

knows, language is used by people not only in the spoken form but also in writing

form. The following the framework explained by the researcher from the basis of

theories to analysis the data but, this study only focuses on language style.

2.1 Sociolinguistics

The existence of language cannot be separated from the society. This

phenomenon is studied in Sociolinguistics. According to Yule (2010:254),

sociolinguistics is a part of sociolinguistics study which focuses on language

which is dealing with social and cultural phenomenon in one society. It usually

explores the field of language, society, and things which are related to social

sciences, especially psychology, anthropology, and sociology. The idea proposed

by Yule is also in line with Trudgill. He states that the study of sociolinguistics is

related to cultural phenomenon so that it can affect the way people speak or talk

since it is determined by the social context, (Trudgill, 2000: 32).

In accordance with those two linguists, Holmes (2013: 01), people who

study linguistics will probably concern on describing people’s different ways of

speaking in different social contexts.

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 Moreover, Holmes argues that sociolinguists also try to investigate the use

of language to convey messages. As language functions to convey messages, there

must be social interactions between the members of community. Those social

interactions can indicate the relationship of the people who are involved. Thus,

sociolinguistics is essential in explaining the interaction between the members of

the society.

2.1.1 Language Variation

Everyone speaks at least one language, and probably most people in the

world speak more than one. Even Americans, most of whom speak only English,

usually know more than one dialect. Certainly no one talks exactly the same way

at all times. The language variation exist because of the use of single language

which is different within a single community, such as men do not speak like

women, and older people do not speak like younger people.

According to Hudson (2010:24), variety of language is a set of linguistics

item with similar social distribution. Ferguson defined language variation as any

speech pattern that is sufficiently homogeneous to be analyzed by available

techniques of synchronic description and which has a sufficiently large repertory

of elements and their arrangement or process with broad enough semantic scope

to function in all normal context of communication.

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[Link] Dialect

Dialect means the language variation that comes from a group of users

that are relative in numbers, living in one particular place, region or area.

Pronunciation and vocabulary differences probably are the easiest

differences that people aware of between different dialects of English. The

examples of the pronunciation differences mentioned by Holmes (2001:124)

in her book is the word dad pronounced by a New Zealander that to British

ears sounds like dead that pronounced by an English person and the word

“god” pronounced by an American that sounds like “guard” that

pronounced by an English and the word “latter” that sounds like “ladder”

to many non-American English speakers.

The examples of the vocabulary differences can be found in the term

used by Australians, people live in England and New-Zealanders.

Australians use the term "sole parents”, while people live in England use

“single parents” and New-Zealanders call them “solo parents”. South

Africans use the term “robot” while British call exactly the same thing as

“traffic light”.

[Link] Accent

In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language. It is

a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or

nation. An accent may identify the locality in which its speakers, the socio-

economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class,

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their first language (when speaking a second language imperfectly), and so

on.

Montgomery (1996:69) defines accent as a term “exclusively reserved

for the whole patterns of pronunciation typical of a particular region or

social group”. Your accent might be one that is associated with people from

a particular place (for example, with being from New York, London, or

Delhi). Some people might just hear you as simply being from the US,

England, or India. Your accent might give the impression that you spoke

some other language before the one you are speaking at the moment (you

might speak French with an English accent, or English with a Korean

accent). It's impossible to speak without conveying some information

through your accent.

Therefore all languages are spoken with several different accents. It is

impossible to speak without an accent. Your accent results from how,

where, and when you learned the language you are speaking and it gives

impressions about you to other people, and also not everyone who comes

from the same place speaks the same: in any place there is a variety of

accents.

[Link] Register

Different professional and different group may develop distinctive

vocabularies. Ferguson in Wardhaugh, (2005:51) says that people

participating in recurrent communication situations tend to develop similar

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vocabularies, similar features of intonation, and characteristic bits of syntax

and phonology that they use in this situation.

Wardhaugh (2005:51) defines the term register as sets of language

items related with discrete occupational or social group. By using register,

people can express their identity at a specific time or place.

[Link] Jargon

Jargon implies the use of specific words. Jargon, however, refers to

the specialized vocabulary characterizing the language use of various groups

of people, often occupational or recreational groups (e.g. the medical jargon

or the law/legal jargon). The specialist words and expressions of a particular

jargon may be incomprehensible to outsiders. This is why we can find

dictionaries which translate such words into more common words. The

internet provides such dictionaries, for example for the medical and legal

jargon.

In contrast to slang, jargon is not restricted to situations of extreme

informality and generally lacks the rebellious undertones connected to the

use of slang expressions.

[Link] Slang

It refers to the non-standard words that are known and used by a

certain group of people, for example a group of teenagers, a group of

college students, a group of jazz players, etc (Widarso, 1989:63). Since

every group has its own slang words there are many kinds of slang that can

be found. Slang is usually created arbitrarily, for example the word “money”

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 has some slang words, such as “cabbage” and “dough”. Sometime slang

words are more alive, more expressive than the standard words. For

example, the slang word of “cemetery” is “boneyard”, the slang word for

“clerk” is “pencil pusher” and the slang words for women who like men

only because of their money are “money mad” and “gold digger”.

2.1.2 Style

Style is more related with the situations than with the speakers themselves.

Ceremonial occasions require very formal speech, public lectures somewhat less

formal, casual conversation quite informal, and conversation between friends may

be extremely informal and casual. This can be seen that when we want to talk

about style, it means that we talk about the same speakers who talk in different

ways on different situations and not the different speakers who talk in different

ways from each other.

Brown (2002: 104) defines style as “a term that refers to consistent and

rather enduring tendencies or preferences within an individual.” Therefore, styles

are those general characteristics of intellectual functioning (and personality type,

as well) that especially pertain to one as an individual, that differentiate one from

someone else.

2.1.3 Language Style

Language is not simply a means of communicating information about a

subject, but it is also a very important means of establishing and maintaining

relationships with other people. According to Llamas (2007:95) “language style is

dimension of language where individual speakers have a choice”. People do not

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always speak in consistently the same way. In fact people shifting the way we

speak constantly as we move from one situation to another. Style is the linguistic

idiosyncrasy of an individual. Style is personal. Style in social roles includes

expected behavior associated with a particular status. It is more flexible than

status and varies also according to the speech situation. Incompatibility of

requirements imposed by roles upon individuals may result in a role strain and

role conflict.

Keraf (1991:113) says, language style is a way to express the idea with

special language show the writer’s soul, spirit and concert (the use of vocabulary).

Good language must have 4 elements, thus are: honestly, respect, good manners,

and the last is interest.

In the other opinion is Eckert (2002:1) “language style is pivotal construct in

the study of sociolinguistics variation”. Language style is the locus of the

individual’s internalization of broader social of distribution variation. The broad

conception on style as a social of distinctiveness has some precedents is

sociological work. Using style in the same loose fashion, however, hardly solves

anything, and goes against the usage of style by most people in relation to

individual texts or individual speakers. Another thing that complicates the study

of dialect is the fact that speakers can adopt different styles of speaking depending

on the circumstances speakers can speak very formally or informally.

From those statements above, the language style means different way in

communicating with other. It is clear that language is a rule-based system of signs.

Saying that language is rule-based usually makes people think of other kinds of

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situations where rules are enforced by a particular authority. We usually evaluate

a person’s education, socio-economic level, background, honesty, friendliness,

and numerous other qualities by how that person speaks.

2.1.4 Kinds of Language Style

The researcher uses the same of Sociolinguistic theory purposed Martin Joss

claims (1976: 153-155) that which is discusses five style of language: frozen

style, a formal style, a consultative style, a casual style, and intimate style. The

explanations of those styles are follows:

1. Frozen Style (Oratorical Style)

It is the most formal style used in formal situations and

ceremonies such as in palace, church, speech of state ceremony, and

some other occasions such as in palace, church, speech of state ceremony,

and some other occasions. This style is more elaborated than the other

styles. The sequences of the sentence are complicatedly related this style

requires high skill and almost used exclusively by specialist, professional

orators, lawyers, and preachers.

Example:

Stated in the Introduction Fundamental constitution 1945.

“sesungguhnya kemerdekaan itu adalah hak segala bangsa. Dan

oleh sebab itu maka penjajahan di atas dunia harus dihapuskan

karena tidak sesuai dengan prikemanusiaan dan prikeadilan”

(actually an independence is the right for every nation, and because

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 of that the colonization in the earth has to be abolished because it

doesn’t conform with the humanity and justice).

2. Formal Style (Deliberative Style)

Formal style is defined as the style of language that used for

important or serious situation. It is also used in addressing audience

usually that is too large or permit effective interchange between speaker

and hearers. Through the forms are normally and not a polished as those

in oratorical style such in a typical classroom lecture is often carry out

is formal style.

Formal style is usually a single topic oriented and it is related to

the fact, that formal writing is technical. Formal style used in school by

students, teacher, lecturer, headmaster.

Example:

1. Mr. Muji: Do you want to learn this course?

Wahid: Yes Sir, I want to learn it.

2. Mrs. Elis, would you like to have a sit first before you

deliver your speech?

3. If Mr. Firzi would be so kind ask to let me finish my words.

4. Well, it is rather difficult to say at this point.

5. I would like to introduce myself to you.

3. Consultative Style

Consultative style is style that which used in semiformal

communication situation. It is one type of language which is required

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 from everyday speaker. Consultative style is typically dialogue, though

formal enough that words are chosen with some business, translation,

doctor-patient conversation, a meeting with the school principal, or any

first meeting between strangers.

The typically of consultative style speech is used between two

persons. While one speaking at intervals the others give short responses,

mostly drawn from a small inventory standard signals. There are basic

part of the system, among them are “Yes, No, Huh, Mm, That’s right “.

4. Casual Style

Casual style is a style that is used for the conversation is relaxed

or normal situation that is appropriate to the conversation with our

friends or sometimes members of a family, such as outside the

classroom, when the students have a chat.

Casual style is also characterized by the use of the first name or

even nickname rather than a little name and last name in addressing one

another. The pronunciation is rapid and often slurred, besides that use

of slang. Another characterized feature is casual speech is the omissions

of unstressed words, particularly at the beginning of sentence.

Example:

1. Don’t get up!

2. Anybody home?

3. Hello guys, are you okay?

4. Give me some

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5. Intimate Style

Intimate style is a completely private language developed within

families, lovers and close friends. The intimate labels are: dear, darling,

honey and even Mom, Dad, and other nicknames might use in this

situation.

Intimate style is also characterized by ellipsis, deletion, rapid,

slurred, pronunciation, non-verbal communication and private code

characterized, it is often unintelligible smallest social units.

Example:

1. Cornelius : Hey darling, how are you?

Lisa : Oh baby, kiss me!

2. Really sexy my girl.

3. What is it, honey?

[Link] Function of Language Style

According by Chaika (1982:29) states the language style functions are

to convey social or artistic effect. It means that language style can be very

important factor in group identification, group solidarity and the signaling of

differences, and when a group is under attack from outside, signal of

difference may become more important and are exaggerated.

While Badiah (in Hidayat, 2004:11) defines the functions of language

stye as follows:

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1. To increase the Audience’s taste.

Using the stylish language can raise .the audience’s thought toward

what is being said the actor, in this case, the actor it will increase the

public’s opinion about what has been written or said, what it means,

purposes, need, and wants.

2. To persuade the reader.

The functions of language style also can make the audience’s sure of

what the audience’s or speaker has stated. Generally, the writer or the

speaker attracts the reader using the rhetorical language.

3. To create certain mood.

The language style that is used by the actors can influence the

audiences feeling and thinking. Thus, how the actors use the language

style in their advertisement will create certain mood.

Based on Chaika and Badiah’s explanation above, the researcher

assumes the functions of language style is the actors must be creative in

choosing the language style that will be used so the audiences easy to

understand what the actors means and makes the audiences feel the

emotional until they create their own certain mood. Therefore, the

researcher chooses the movie as the object of the research.

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2.2 Movie

Movies also known as films are a type of visual communication which use

moving pictures and sound to tell stories or inform (help people to learn). People

in every part of the world watch movies as a type of entertainment, a way to have

fun. Movies are made by a screenwriter write a script, which is the story of the

movie with words that actors will say. Actors and directors read scripts to find out

what to say and what to do. The actors memorize the words from the script that

they will say in the movie, and learn the actions that script tells them to do. Some

films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles

that translate the dialogue into the language of the viewer. To understood as the

written text which is a spoken by the actor or player in movie using script.

According to Kooperman (2010) Script is focusing on story, dialogue, formatting,

character, plot, theme, momentum, and document itself.

As the data are taken from the movie, Wild Child becomes an interesting

object that can be used as the object for this study. This movie is starting from a

girl named Poppy More (Emma Roberts) who lives in the United States and has a

bad behavior in her teenage life. The lack of ethics caused this girl to only play

around with her money and wealth, which eventually led to her father deciding to

send Poppy to one of the female dormitories named "Abbey Mount" in England.

In this new school, it does not necessarily make Poppy turn into a well-

behaved student, but she still remains a "trouble maker". She often becomes wild,

in fact she becomes the great enemy of Harriet (Georgia King) the most respected

student at the Abbey Mount Dormitory. Poppy also had to share a room with her
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roommate, and slowly she now began to be able to change step by step and feel

comfortable with her life in the dormitory. This movie is very appropriate for

teenager nowadays. It has entertaining characters and it’s perfect for any viewer

for a bittersweet love story and friendship.

2.3 Related Studies

There are some studies supporting this research that have relation between

this research:

The thesis belongs Winda Vikriana Rosida of State University of Malang in

(2008) entitled An Analysis of Language Style Used in Traveling Gear

Advertisement of “Outside” Magazine. She also focuses on the supporting

language style but in the magazine. She is used the theory of language style from

Mc Crimmon Theory. She found just two kind of language style, they are:

informal and colloquial style. Furthermore, among those styles, the dominant

styles which used in the traveling gear advertisement of “Outside” magazine is

colloquial style. The difference this study with Winda's research is on the theory

used. Where she uses the theory from Mc Crimmon while this research uses the

theory of Martin Joos and she also uses the magazine as an object of the research

while in this study the researcher uses movie as an object.

The next is Hidayat (2004) conducted a research on language styles of

advertisement in Jawa Pos. the result of his study shows that there are five

categories of language style in the advertisement according to Mott Theory. They

are narrative style, dramatic style, newsy style, dialogue style, and humorous

style. The difference between Hidayat's research and this research is the theory
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used, where Hidayat uses Mott Theory while the researcher uses Martin Joos

theory and also use different objects. He uses the advertisement in Jawa Pos while

the researcher uses Wild Child movie as an object..

The last thesis is “Language Style of Muluk in Alangkah Lucunya Negeri

ini Movie” by Siti Zulaekho (2011). From English Department Faculty of Letters

and Humanities, Diponegoro University. In her study, she is analysis a utterances

in the movie. In the movie she is found casual style is dominant type used by

Muluk. Siti Zulaekho's research is the same as this research. Both of them use the

same theory, that is theory of Martin Joos and the object that will be used is the

same with hers that is movie but different is only the title of the movie where Siti

uses “Alangkah Indahnya Negeri Ini” movie while in this research, the researchers

use Wild Child movie.

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 CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter, the researcher presents all elements regarding the research

method applied in conducting this research. The discussion in this chapter

includes research design, data source and data, research instruments, data

collecting technique, and data analysis procedure.

3.1 Research Design

The researcher uses descriptive qualitative design for analysis the subject. It

is the most suitable one to use analyzing this research and also appropriate for this

research because it is considered to result in a detail description about language

style. According to Hancock et. al. (1998:7) qualitative research is research that

concerned with developing explanation of social phenomena. The method is

relevantly employed because the data are analyzed in description without any

given number to count.

3.2 Data Source

The data in this research is in the form of words from the script of Wild

Child movie utterances or conversation taken from the movie that released in

2008 and directed by Nick Moore and written by Lucy Dahl. The researcher also

uses library and the internet research to select the book, journals, and other written

sources to support the research. The informant is not needed because the data

deals with texts or script from the internet in https: //[Link] /script/

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wild_child_23469. The main source of the analysis is a half of conversation in the

script “Wild Child” movie.

3.3 Research Instruments

Research instrument is very important to obtain the data of research for it is

a set of method which is used to collect data. There are two kinds of instrument

used in this research: human instrument and non-human instrument. The primary

instrument of this study is the researcher itself as human instrument who selected,

collected, and analyzed the data, and also reported the result of the study. Because

of the data source is a movie, the researcher needs a laptop or computer (as non-

human instrument) in visualizing the movie as a media to analyze the

conversation in the script of the movie Wild Child.

3.4 Procedure of the Data Collection

After collecting the data, the researcher transcribed the movie and identified

the utterances that contained language style used. The researcher did some steps to

analyze the data. First, the researcher listed the data which contains language style

used in the “Wild Child” movie.

Then, the researcher classified them based on language style by Martin Joos

(1976) which discusses the language style. In conclusion, in analyzing the data,

the procedures are also conducted as follows:

1. For the first time, the researcher watched the Wild Child movie to

understand more what the story is about.

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 2. The researcher searched the script of Wild Child movie from the internet

in [Link] to get textual form

of dialog.

3. After getting the transcript, the researcher made sure the text in the

script match with utterance in the movie.

4. The final step, the all marked data is classified into the type of language

style in order to be easy to analyzed, the researcher create a table to

make it easy to share the data that is found.

No. Language Style Type Data Analysis

1 Frozen Style -
2 Formal Style -
3 Consultative Style -
4 Casual Style -
5 Intimate Style -
TOTAL DATA -

3.5 Data Analysis Technique

In analyzing the data for this study, the researcher decided to do several

techniques to get any data to make an accurate data analysis. The first step is the

researcher list the data which contain language style used in the “Wild Child”

movie. Then, the researcher was classified them based on language style by

Martin Joos theory. In analyzing the data, the procedures were also conducted as

follows:

1. The data were collected from the movie by gaining the transcript of the

conversation occurred in the movie.

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2. The data were selected and grouped into five language style.

3. The data transcripts are classified and identified based on their styles.

4. The data were analyzed.

5. The last, the researcher interpreted the result of the analysis to make the

conclusion.

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