CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the StudyLanguage has played a very crucial role in human being’s life. Life would be nothing without language. Language is one thing that differentiate human from other creatures. As human being, absolutely we need language to communicate with the others in an interaction. By using language, we can express our ideas, feelings, intentions and desires. In addition, the uses of language can show who we are. It means that we establish our identity through our use of language. Language is purely human and non instinctive method of communication ideas, it means that language does not come by feeling.
Language can not be separated with society. Without society there can be no languages, vice versa without language there can be no society. Study about language and society is called sociolinguistic. sociolinguistic is concerned with investigating the relationships between language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure of language and how language function in communication”. The equivalent goal in the sociology of language is trying to discover how social structure can be better understood through the study of language.
talking. For example, a secretary that talks to her manager, she normally uses the formal language like using “sir” word, because her manager is her leader in the company where she works, so there is “AProfession Discrepancy” between secretary and manager. Another example is when we talk with our friends, of course, we do not use the formal language, because the situation is relax and normal situation and there is no discrepancy. Example:
A: Since when you arrived in Medan?
B: Since two days ago.
An illustration of formal style found in the King’s Speech movie is the dialogue between Bertie and Mr Baldwin
Baldwin: It’s not just because she’s anAmerican sir. It’s that she is soon to be a twice divorced American, andthe King can not marry a divorcedwoman.
Bertie: Prime Minister, you’d leave thecountry without a government?
These data are classified into formal style. Because Between Bertie and Baldwin are talking about serious problem and it is in the Baldwin’s study Room, so it is so private, because the conversation only between Baldwin and Bertie. Bere, Bertie as a King also respects to Baldwin as the prime minister. The dialogue also use the standard language.
systematically vary according to the situation in which it is used. So, in other word, in communication, it concerns with relation between language and context in which is used.
The King’s Speech movie is a movie based on a true story of King George VI.It is directed by Tom Hooper and Colla Firth as the actor. The movie talks about the King George VI who is stutters. He has a problem about these stutters, because as a King, at one time, he has to deliver a speech in front of people. So, to eliminate his stutters, Queen Elizabeth, his wife calls a therapist named Lionel logue. By doing a therapy, finally he could speech well. This movie teach us to keep struggling in live, never give up in any situation and of corse abot unconditionally love of a wife to her husband. This film received many awards and nominations, such as getting awards for four categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. So, it is the prove that the movie is a good movie I think.
In this thesis the writer tries to analyze the Language Styles found in The King’s Speech movie especially in the Bertie’s (King George VI) conversation as a leading character. I want to make a deep understanding to the readers about five language styles, so they can utilize these styles in their daily life. It is why, I choose this topic to be analyzed, Five language styles itself are frozen (oratorical style), formal (deliberative style), consultative style, casual style, and intimate style.
As we have known that the styles of language are also the part of language variation
1.2 Problem of the Study
In this analysis, there are some questions that need to be answered. These questions are the problems that need some solutions, they are:
a. What styles are used in Bertie’s conversations as a leading character? b. Which type of the styles is dominantly occurs in Bertie’s conversations?
1.3Objective of The Analysis
In relations to the problems, the objectives of this analysis are:
a. To find out what styles are used in Bertie’s conversations as a leading character?
b. To find out which type of the styles occurs dominantly in Bertie’s
Conversation
1.4Scope of the Study
In most of researches, it is important to limit the analysis on specific data that has been chosen and it is also important to avoid over complicating the issues and analysis. This would help the writer to get the best result of it.
The object of the analysis is text in the King’s Speech Movie. But the text that will be chosen is only the interactions or the conversations of Bertie is done as a Leading Character in this movie. So, the focus of the analysis is five language styles based on Martin Joos theory that found in all of Bertie’s interactions in the movie.
1.5Significance of the Study
In this thesis I also expect that some significances could be useful for thereaders, as follows :
b. To give the more comprehensive understanding in utilizing the five language styles in daily life.
c. This analysis can be advantageous to the readers, especially to the students of English Department who are interested in Sociolinguistics and its aspect.
1.6Method of the Study
In writing this thesisthe writer uses Qualitative Description.Qualitative description is a method to investigate an object that can not be measured by numbers or other measuring that is unmeasureable. I also readsome books, and other literatures which relevant to the object of research in order to get informations about language styles. Furthermore, in this thesis the writer applies the steps of analysis. Firstly,watching the movie for several times. Secondly, identifying the script which have Bertie’s conversations and then transcribing its conversational dialogue. Thirdly, classifying the data based on five language styles. Fourth, analysing and discussing the significances of the data. Finally, I draw some conclusions and suggestions. In discovering which style that dominantly used in the movie, the writer uses a formula to count the most dominating style.
1.7Review of Literature
In order to get the data and information to analyze this thesis, the writer usessome books as sources. They are:
2. Wardhaugh (2010: 48) says that your dialect shows who (or what) you are, whilst your register shows what you are doing.From this statement, it is clear that register is the way we speakto others and related to the society or location where we speak, whether it is formal, informal, public, private, and, etc.
3. Hudson (1996: 40) distinguishes three general types of dimension: field, mode, and tenor. Field is concerned with the purpose and subject matter of the communication (why); Mode refers to the means by which communication takesplacenotably, by speech or writing ( how); and Tenor depends on the relations between participant ( to whom).
4. Martin Joos (1976) recognized five different levels of formality and occasion where each implying different forms of speech to fit separate functions, that is : ( 1) frozen (oratorical style), ( 2) formal (deliberative style), ( 3) consultative style, ( 4) casual style, and ( 5) intimate style.
