AN ANALYSIS OF CASUAL LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY VIDEO
JOCKEY IN MTV MUSIC PROGRAM
THESIS
By:
MAYA ARDHILA
08360020
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF CASUAL LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY VIDEO JOCKEY IN MTV MUSIC PROGRAM
THESIS
By:
MAYA ARDHILA
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF CASUAL LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY VIDEO JOCKEY IN MTV MUSIC PROGRAM
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to Achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
MAYA ARDHILA 08360020
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
This Thesis written by Maya Ardhila was approved on October 29, 2012
By:
Advisor II Advisor I
This thesis was defended in front ofthe examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requairements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
On October 29, 2012
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. M. Syaifuddin, M.M
Exeminers: Signatures:
1. Santi Prastiyowati, S.Pd 1……… 2. Rahmawati Khadijah Moro, S.Pd, M.PEd 2………
3. Iswahyuni, M.Pd 3………
ACKNOWLEDMENTS
Bismillahirrohmanirrohim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, and the Merciful
Alhamdulillah, all praise to Allah, the Merciful and charitable. Because of His guidance, blessing and affection, the writer could finish this thesis with the title “An Analysis of Casual Language Style Used by Video Jockey in MTV Music
Program” completely as well as possible.
The writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to Iswahyuni M.Pd as her first advisor and Drs. Adiloka S, M.Pd, as her second advisor, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance and advice during the consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this thesis.
Her deepest thanks are addressed to her beloved mother (Estuningtyas), her late father (Suhardjono), her sister (Wahyuning Eka Septy) and her family for their encouragement, love, care, and pray that never ending so that she can finish this thesis. They are the shines of her life for ever after.
Next, her grateful thanks is given to her classmate in English class of 2008 who taught her about friendship and personality, her best friend (Iin, Pritha, Kezia, and Uut and Santi) who always give her support and advice to finish this thesis, her
The writer knows that this thesis has not been perfect yet. However, the writer hopes that this thesis will be beneficial for the readers.
Malang, October 17, 2012
MOTTO
“
Try not to become a man of success but rather
try to become a man of value”
(Albert Einstein)
“We make a living by what we get. We make a
life by what we give”
DEDICATION
This thesis is proudly dedicated for:
My beloved parents (Alm) Suhardjono and Estuningtyas, My
sister, Wahyuning Eka Septy.Thanks for the love, sacrifice,
and pray. For always support my dreams and giving a
charming spirit when I’m down,
and also inspiring me to have
a beautiful life.
My advisors, Mrs. Iswahyuni M.Pd, and Drs. Adiloka S, M.Pd.
who always supports me and has guided me to conduct this
research.
My beloved friends “d’sunrise community”(Phida, Ocha, Dya,
Wahyu), Iin, Pritha, Kezia, Uut, Santi and Silvi who always
support and help me in doing my thesis and all best friends in
UMM (Malang).
My new family in Raden Fatah Junior High School
“PPL”
and
Panekan village (Magetan)
“KKN”
that give me a beautiful
experience.
My special one Djanu who always beside me, and support me
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Language ... 8
2.2 Sociolinguistic ... 9
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Findings ... 34
4.1.1 Language style used by the VJ ... 38
4.1.2 Characteristic of casual language style used by the VJ.. 39
4.2 Discussion ... 43
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 44
5.2 Suggestion ... 45
5.2.1 Suggestion for the Readers... 45
5.2.2 Suggestion for the Lecturers ... 46
5.2.3 Suggestion for the next researchers... 46
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
As the introduction of the study, this chapter present the background, the problems, the purposes, the significance of the study, the scope and the limitation of the study, and the definition of the key terms. Each section is presented as follow.
1.1 Background of Study
In expressing feeling and idea, a tool is needed, that is a language. According to Wardaugh (1997) language is a system of arbitrary verbal symbols by which members of speech community used as a means of communication to interact and express the ideas, feeling and thought
When people come from different cultural backgrounds, and they communicate with other, sometimes misunderstanding will happen. This communication failure might be caused by the lack of common language in each part,
since they do not understand each other‟s languages quite well. They do not know
how to encode or to decode the message they receive, thus, they lack discourse understanding. As a result, the receiver does not get the speaker‟s intended meaning
of the message. The intended meaning, that is, what is in the speaker‟s mind when he
is framing his message, is not the same as the interpreted meaning or that which is
conveyed to the listener‟s mind when he receives the message.
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Moreover, when we talk about language, of course it can‟t be separated with sociolinguistic, because language has the important role to interact in society. Language and social interaction is the basic elements in sociolinguistic. Language is a means of communication. Sociolinguistic is the study of language in its social context and the study of social life trough linguistic (Wardough in Sabillah, 2002).
In sociolinguistic, we should keep in mind that there is a variation of language. It is a part of sociolinguistic itself. There are many different types of language variation. The term may be used to a distinct language, classifying a language spoken by a specific group of people. Hudson (1996) defines a variety of language as a set of linguistic items with similar distribution. It means that to communicate with the other we have different ways that have been decided based on the situation. We do not always speak in exactly the same way. It depends on the situation. Nikolas has stated, “in fact, the statistical and co relational linking speech style and social situation has lived on variations sociolinguistics, where stylistic stratification is defined as speakers speaking differently in different situations”(2007). It proof that deferent situation can influence the style used by speakers.
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Actually, there are many styles in language used by many people. The style is influenced by some factors, like profession, region, education, age, etc. According to Asif (2007) language users employ language to categorize or classify aspects of language use, including forms of utterance, the situations in which they are used, and the persons who use them. To communicate, people have language style to speak each other. Language style is influenced by the listeners and condition of the place. They must have a good adjustment when communicate with other people. So, they can get a good communication.
There are five styles which had been outlined by Joos (Mesthrie, 2000), One of those styles is casual style. Casual style is typical of informal speech between peers, includes ellipse (or omission or certain grammatical elements) and slang between peers. According to Labov (2001):“ „careful speech‟ is filled out partly by the category „response‟, which is defined as a first part of an informant‟s speech following speech by inter viewer, if informant then develops a response into a
personal narrative, that „ narrative‟ becomes category in „casual style‟ ”. It means that
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MTV music program is program that very popular in the world. Almost every country has this program. This program becomes familiar in society especially teenagers because of the music and the Video Jockey (VJ). This program always shows the update music (new release song) that is not shows by another music program yet. This program is broadcasted on Saturday at 7 to 9 p.m.
Video Jockey (VJ) becomes one of the other factors that make this program more popular in teenager society. VJ is the music presenter in MTV. A video jockey is an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as the United States. VJ‟s MTV have special characteristic than the others. They must acquire some languages and they must make the situation more attractive although they must conduct the program without any script.
In this research, the writer try to analyze language style that used by Video Jockey (VJ) in MTV music program. The language used by the VJ in music program is usually the casual language because they have to adjust with the viewers. Most of the viewers of music program are teenagers. So they must use style of language that usually used by teenagers to make situation more relax and comfortable.
1.2 Problems of Study
Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulated the problems as follows:
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2. What are the characteristic of casual language used by video jockey in MTV music program?
1.3 Purposes of Study
The purposes of the study are stated below:
1. To describe language style used by video jockey in MTV music program
2. To know about the characteristic of language style used by video jockey in MTV music program.
1.4 The Significance of the Study
The result of this study is will enrich the knowledge of the readers. And it will give contribution for another research to conduct the research on this study. It is suggested to conduct further study for another language style, especially in casual language.
Practically, this study can be useful for the students to understand about Language Style in Sociolinguistics subject. It may also be able to help next researcher to develop and continue another analysis about the same related topic of this study.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
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by VJ‟s MTV music program in every Saturday, 2, 9, and 16 June, 2012 at 7 p.m.
1.6 The Definition of Keys Terms
There are some key terms that must be defined in order to avoid mistakes and misunderstanding of the content of the study, they are:
1.Language Style
Language style is language variation which reflects changes in situational factors and it is usually analyzed based on the levels of formality. 2. Casual Language
Language that use when you‟re talking to a friend. It is very informal
in tone and full of a range of words and grammar that identify it as being casual. The conversation between intimate on matters of little importance. (Joos,1962)
3. Video Jockey (VJ)
Video Jockey is a person who presides over an entertainment, as on a radio or television program or in a nightclub, at a banquet, etc., introducing
the speakers or performers, filling in the intervals with jokes, etc (Webster‟s
dictionary). This research focuses on VJ‟s MTV music program. 4. Music Program
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5. The MTV Show
