AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE BARRIER FACED BY LIZ GILBERT
AS AMERICAN TRAVELER WOMAN TO ITALY IN JENNIFER
SALT’S FILM “EAT PRAY LOVE”
THESIS
By:
DESSY CHRISTIN ANGGRAINI
08360159
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE BARRIER FACED BY LIZ GILBERT
AS AMERICAN TRAVELER WOMAN TO ITALY IN JENNIFER
SALT’S FILM “EAT PRAY LOVE”
THESIS
By:
DESSY CHRISTIN ANGGRAINI
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE BARRIER FACED BY LIZ GILBERT
AS AMERICAN TRAVELER WOMAN TO ITALY IN JENNIFER
SALT’S FILM “EAT PRAY LOVE”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
DESSY CHRISTIN ANGGRAINI
08360159
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
This thesis written by Dessy Christin Anggraini was approved on August 2, 2012
Advisor II, Advisor I,
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on August 2, 2012
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. M. Syaifuddin, M.M
Examiners: Signatures:
M O T T O :
Katakanlah : “ Walau sekiranya lautan menjadi tinta untuk menulis
kalimat-kalimat Tuhanku, sungguh habislah lautan itu sebelum habis ditulis
kalimat-kalimat Tuhanku, m
eski kamu datangkan sebanyak itu pula”
(Surat Al-Kahfi: 109)
Kesabaran menghadapi saat – saat sulit adalah tanda kedewasaan
Ketabahan di saat duka menimpa adalah buah dari keiklasan .
DEDICATION :
This Thesis Dedicated To : My Beloved Parents
(My Father Pa’i and My Mother Lindawati)
My Beloved Brother (Tomei Sambuaga)
My Beloved and Family
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alhamdulillah hirobil’alamin, my praise gratefully to Allah SWT. The Almighty
and Merciful one, also the one who always guides and bless me, so I could finish this thesis. Sholawat and Salam are always given to the prophet Muhammad SAW.
I realize that this thesis will never get the success without any interference from other people. Therefore, I would like to give sincere gratitude to:
1. Ibu Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M and Bapak Drs. Mas’udi, M.Ed as her advisors for their advices, suggestions, guidance, critics, and correction in completing this thesis.
2. My beloved family, her father Pa’i, her mother Lindawati, her brother Tomei Sambuaga. There is no word for you, so many sacrifices you have given to get her success. Thanks for you all.
3. My Big Family, her grandfather Siddik Priyodarsono, her grandma Sayati, her uncle and aunty Mr and Mrs. Dayat Sumartoyo and Dayat Somartono, her brother Taufik and sister Aan, and Rara. Thanks for the pray and support.
4. My beloved Frandika Rachmad Faisol and family (Bapak and Mama).
Thanks for you’re supporting so she can do the best for all this things.
5. My beloved friends, Mbak Nita, Mas Mujib, Yuli, Yaning, Molly, Widia, Ayu, Dini, Rika, dek Icha, Ning and mbak Santi thank for your help, makes laugh together and thank you for being such a nice friends in my life and for all her friends that she can’t mention one by one she love you all and she will never forget you guys.
Finally, the writer truly realized that this thesis still needs the constructive critics and suggestion from the readers in order to be perfect and useful for the readers, especially for English Department students.
Malang, August 2012 The Writer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Content page
APPROVAL ……….. i
LEGALIZATION ………... ii
MOTTO & DEDICATION ……… iii
ABSTRACT ……… iv
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1. Literature ………. 7
2.2. Film ……….. 9
2.3. The Similarities and Differences between Film and Drama ……… 9
2.3.1. The Similarities between Film and Drama ……… 10
2.3.2. The Differences between Film and Drama ……… 10
2.4. Kinds of Film ……… 11
2.4.1. Action Adventure Film ………. 11
2.4.3. Horror Film ……… 11
2.5.2. Character, Characteristic, and Characterization ……… 15
2.5.3. Conflict ……….. 16
2.5.4. Theme ……… 17
2.5.5. Setting ………... 18
2.6. Language Barrier ………. 19
2.6.1. The Definition of Language Barrier ……….. 19
2.6.2. Kinds of Language Barrier ……… 20
2.6.3. The Effect of Language Barrier ………. 23
2.6.4. The Overcoming Language Barrier ………. 24
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METODHOLOGY
4.1.1. Language Barrier Faced by Liz Gilbert as American Traveler Woman To Italy ……… 33
4.1.3. The ways Liz Gilbert Solved Her Language Barrier ……… 45
4.2. Discussion ………. 48
4.3. Lesson ……… 51
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1. Conclusion ………
5.2. Suggestion ………. 53
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abrams, M. H. 1999. A Glossary of Literature Terms. Seventh Edition. New York: Holt Rinehartand Winston.
Arp, R. Thomas and Greg Johnson. 2006. Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and sense. Ninth Edition. United States: Thomson Wadsworth.
Ary, Donald, Jacobs and Razavieh, 2002. Introduction to Research in Education. Sixth Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Ary, Donald, Jacobs, Razavieh and Sorensen, 2006. Introduction to Research in
Education. Seventh Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Barnet, Sylvan, Burto and Cain, 2006. An Introduction to Literature Fiction, Poetry,
and Drama. Fourteen Edition. New York: PEARSON Longman
Diyanni, Robert, 2004. Literature Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Eastwood, Clint, 2002. The American Film Institute Desk Reference. New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
Jones, Jr. 1968. Outline of Literature. New York: Mac Millan Company.
Klaler, Mario, 2004. An Introduction to Literary Studies. Second Edition. New York: Roudledge Company.
Koesnosoebroto, Sunaryono. 1988. The Anatomy of Prose Fiction, Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan-Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan
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West, F. (1991). Breaking the Language Barrier: The challenge of world communications. New York: Coward- McCann, Inc.
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses background of study, statement of problem, purpose of
study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key term.
1.1 Background of Study
Literature is very interesting and useful thing to study. Literature means
written works for example poetry, drama, and novel are recognized as having important or permanent value. In other hand, by creating a literature everyone
can express their feeling, thought, and emotion. It can be a written form for example poem, short story and novel or it can be also by song or creating film or drama. Literature can not separate with human life like language and culture.
According to Valery and Todorov (in Koesnosoebroto, 1988:1):
Literature is a kind of extension and application of certain properties
of language.” He sees the relationship between literature and
language on the basis of the very fact that the literary work is a verbal work of art, and this has long provoked investigators to speak of
language‟s leading role in literature: an entire discipline, stylistics, has been created on the borderline between literary studies and linguistics.
Literary work is one of the ways to teach us the value in life. By learning
the literary work, we can get the description of the social life of a certain time and we are able to get information or knowledge of many kind of human
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This gives a unique pleasure. When we watch literary work, we will get
knowledge about problem of society, problem connected with love, hate, happiness and problem in language culture which is happen in the society.
One of literary work is film. Film is predetermined by literary techniques; conversely, literary practice developed particular features under the impact of film (Klaler, 2004: 53). People in every part of the world watch film that tell
stories as a type of entertainment; a way to have fun. Most of films are made so that they can be shown on big screens at cinemas or film theatres. By watching
a film people can get some information and get the moral value from the film which is important and can be applied for our life.
Meanwhile in some film there is show or tell about culture. Here, a film
the title “Eat Pray Love” shows us about differences of culture in every
country. As we know that culture is a part of our life. Human life can not be
separated from culture. Culture can be the way of life of the people. It can be a language, values, attitudes, tradition, and life style.
As we know that every country has its own culture. It may be different
from one to others. This condition sometimes makes misunderstanding and misinterpretation among people who have different culture especially on
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to acculturate the new culture that they do not experience before. It is very
important for them to learn and understand about the cultural awareness before they come to the country exactly in language. The cultural awareness is not
only in the intercultural communication, but also in the social adjustment. When someone enters a new country and new culture, he/she has to understand the intercultural communication. According to Levine and Adelman
(in Wati, 2007), the intercultural communication is the process whereby one‟s culture affects interaction with a person from another culture. That is way,
language has an important role since language is the mean of expression and communication also involves differing perceptions, attitudes, and
interpretations.
The social adjustment that normally happens when someone enters a new culture is called as culture shock. Culture shock occurs as a result of total
immersion in a new culture. Stranger may be anxious because they do not know or understand the culture and people behavior in daily life. So, it is very significance for them to understand well about the new culture in that country.
Understanding the language is very important to the strangers when they come to the country with different culture from their culture. When someone
did not understand the language there, they can not communicate and have an interaction with other people there. So that way, before someone go to abroad, it could be better if they learn and understand first about the culture in that
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The language barrier above was faced by Liz Gilbert in Jennifer Salt‟s
film “Eat Pray Love”. She is an American traveler comes to Italy which has
different language in they daily life in America. For Liz Gilbert that is the first
time she goes to Italia. So she did not understand at all the language there. She got many problems and difficulties in understanding the language in Italy.
Because of the reason above the researcher interests to conduct a research
about language barrier and this study will explain more about a language barrier was faced by Liz Gilbert as American Traveler to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film
„Eat Pray Love”. Understanding the language is very important when someone
comes to new culture. So that way, it is very important to know and understand
well before we come to the new culture.
1.2 Statement of Problems
Dealing with the analysis which is conducted, the researcher of this study
has made the statement of problem. There is as follows:
1. What are language barrier faced by Liz Gilbert as American traveler woman to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film “Eat Pray Love”?
2. What are the effects of language barrier faced by Liz Gilbert as American traveler woman to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film “Eat Pray Love”?
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1.3 Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study will be expressed as follows:
1. To describe the language barrier faced by Liz Gilbert as American
traveler woman to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film “Eat Pray Love”
2. To know the effect of language barrier were faced by Liz Gilbert as American traveler woman to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film “Eat Pray Love”
3. To know how did Liz Gilbert solve her language barrier as American traveler woman to Italy in Jennifer Salt‟s film “Eat Pray Love”
1.4 Significance of Study
This study is expected to give contribution to the English Department
students who want to conduct a research in the same subject but different object to investigate. And the result of the study is expected to enrich and enlarge the knowledge of the students about the cross culture understanding especially in
language barrier on informal aspect. This study is also expected to motivate language barrier, faced by Liz Gilbert as American traveler woman to Italy in
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1.6 Definition of Key Term
In order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the terms used in this study, some definitions of the terms are stated as follows:
1. Analysis is a method by which a thing separated into parts, and those parts are given rigorous, logical, detailed scrutiny, resulting in a consistent and relatively complete account of the element of the thing and
the principles of their organization. (Holman and Harmon, 1986: 20) 2. Language is a human system of communication that uses arbitrary signal,
such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
3. Culture barrier is a barrier when someone does not know the main
language, religion, behavioral, emotional, of the country and they need a process to adaptation (wiki.answer.com). So that culture barrier is a feeling of confusion and anxiety caused by contact with another culture.
4. Language barrier is a term used to imply all the problems faced by an individual as she tries to communicate with a group of people who speak a tongue other than his own. It is prevalent in settings which involve the
conglomeration of people from different cultures, speaking different languages. It is also used as a blanket term for all the difficulties
associated with the learning of a foreign language (West, 1991:2). 5. Traveler is the trip that passed through by Liz Gilbert to the Italy.
6. Film is a story recorded on the film to be shown in the cinema.
(Longman, 1987:330).
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8. Liz Gilbert is the actress of film “Eat Pray Love”.
