AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”

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AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION” THESIS

By:

APRI WIBISONO 09360044

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION” THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By:

APRI WIBISONO 09360044

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. (Albert Einstein)

Focus only for one purpose is the way to get it as many as you want. (Mario Teguh)

Don’t judge the book from the cover; don’t make any speculation about someone that you do not know the truth.

(Unknown author)

DEDICATION: I dedicated this thesis to:

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alhamdulillah…. All praise to Allah SWT, because of his guidance, blessing, and affection, I can finish this thesis.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Khairudin S.Pd, M.Pd as my first advisor and Drs. Marzuki, M. Pd as my second advisor, who have been very helpful, kind, and patient in giving ideas, advice, and valuable time during the process of writing this thesis, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance ad advice during the consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this thesis.

I also want to express thanks to all lectures and examiners at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at University of Muhammadiyah Malang, for teaching me a lot of things in the course they taught.

Finally special thanks for my beloved mother (Dra. Anik Sulistiani, MM), father (Ir. Ketut Priayanto), my beloved brothers Ayub Wirasukma, Agil Wicaksono, and my big family who give me a spirit, give me a motivation of doing this thesis as soon as possible. And special thanks to Palupi Yuiningtias, Koplak Communitiy and my beloved friends of A2 class. The last but not least, thanks to all of the people around me for helping me to finish this thesis. I hope Allah SWT will give them in return all of the good things that have been given to me.

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suggestions and useful revision to improve this thesis are welcome. Therefore I will be happy if there are other readers who are interested in studying further after reading this thesis.

Malang October 30, 2013 the writer

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of study

Language is important for society. People need language to communicate with someone else in their daily life. Without language they cannot express their ideas, emotions, and feelings in spoken and in written forms. Trudgill (1983:13) states that language is not simply a means of communicating information, it is also a very important means of establishing and maintaining relationship with other people. In society language also has an important role for human beings to communicate with each other. People cannot be separated with language because language what the member of a particular society use for communication.

Language has important function in society, on how to communicate with each other. However, speech in almost any society can take different forms, like a dialect in one region is different with another region. For example the dialect between east java and central java is different.

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connections with the social sciences, especially social psychology, anthropology, human geography, and sociology.

There are a number of different branches of literature such as drama, poetry, novels, songs, short story, and movie. All of these are works of the imagination or the capacity for invention. The primary aim of literature is giving pleasure and entertaining those who are voluntary to it. In addition, literary works express a series of happening such as their social problems, struggle of life and conflict. Movie gives so many useful values and messages to the human life that is complex with many conflicts to be faced. It can give contribution to build up sensitivity to the environment either. Movie touches all of our lives, because it is a display that represented from reality that happened in our society. By watching movie, the audience can find the exploration of human personality, and find many different characters of people and get information about various behaviors and attitudes. Those things can make them mature and able to know the way how to handle the difficult situations and understand about other people’s thought. Movie is made not only for

pleasure, but by watching movie, we can take some lessons related with human life such as how they adapt each other, how they communicate with God, nature, or everything around them.

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speaker hates. Some people use bad language to show their bad feeling. Somehow, bad language is used in all of the aspect unexpected in a literary work such as film. Most of western film contains of bad language, even it has a lot of good message for them who watch it.

The researcher take “Legion” movie to help the reader to get information and knowledge about bad language that used in it, because from the movie itself the reader can understand about the meaning of it and they can learn about the usage of bad bad language. Bad language is prohbitted to use in the society, because most of people only know how to use it orally without thinking the consequences of bad language that they have spoken.

1.2 Statement of the problem

Based on the background of study above, the problems are stated as follows: 1. What are the bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”?

2. What are the meanings of bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”? 3. Why are the bad languages used by the characters in the movie “Legion”?

4. What are the effects of bad languages to the charcaters involved in the movie “Legion”?

1.3 Purpose of the study

The purpose of the study should be stated clearly from the beginning as the principle guidance. They are formulated as follows:

1. To discover bad languages expressed in “Legion” movie

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3. To describe the reason why the characters used bad language in “Legion” movie. 4. To investigate the effects on bad language to the characters involved in “Legion”

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1.4 Significance of the study

The result of this study has both theoretical and practical values. Theoretically, the writer expects that the result of this study can give contribution the readers to learn and develop their knowledge about bad languages on movie. Practically, this is important for the readers because by watching movie, the readers might appriciate literary works. Furthermore, the writer expects that the reader will take the benefit from the result of this study.

Besides, the result of this study is expected to be used as a scientific analysis references for the teacher who wants to give the knowledge to their students about bad language from another culture. It may also help further researcher who wants to develop and continue another analysis on the related topic of this study.

1.5 Scope and limitation

The writer realizes that it is necessary to limit and scope this research it so that the study can be more focused. The scope of this research is on “Legion” movie, and

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5 1.6 Definition of key terms

The following definitions are important to make the readers to have the same understanding for some terms used in the research.

 Bad language is kind of language that contain bad grammar, bad spoken, and informal language. According to Andersson (1990:35) Bad language is a far from clear and unambiguous concept.

 “Legion” is the title of the movie. Legion movie is an apocalyptic action thriller film directed by Scott Stewart.

AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”