ELLIPSIS IN
OCEAN’S ELEVEN
MOVIE
A THESIS
Submitted to Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Sarjana Sastra
ESTER BR. TARIGAN
Registration Number 2113220012
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
DECLARATION
I have familiarized myself with the University’s Policy on Academic
integrity. Except where approximately acknowledged, this thesis is my own
work, has been expressed in my own word, and has not been previously been
submitted for assessment.
I understand that this paper may be screened electronically or otherwise for
plagiarism.
Medan, August 2015
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all I would like to thank Jesus Christ for the blessing and the strength given to the writer during her completion of this thesis. The thesis aimed to fulfilling one of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra at English Department, Faculty of Language and Arts (FBS) Sate University of Medan.
In completing this thesis, the writer would like to express her gratitude to the following people:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., the Rector of State University of Medan
Dr. Isda Pramuniati,M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Language and Arts
(FBS) State University of Medan for her attention and encouragement to complete this thesis on time.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English and Literature
Department, Dra. Meisuri, MA. the Secretary of English Department and
Syamsul Bahri, S.S., M.Hum., the Head of English Non-Educational
Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
Immanuel Prasetya Gintings,S.S., M.Hum as her thesis Consultant for his
invaluable advices, giving comments, giving some corrections as well as giving encouragement to the writer during the process of writing the Thesis. Prof. Dr. Berlin Sibarani, M.Pd as her Academic Advisor.
For all Lecturers of English and Literature Department FBS UNIMED, for
giving invaluable information and science, especially English Literature. Her beloved parents Perhatian Tarigan and Nurlaimah Br. Ginting for
giving support and encouragement that never ending.
Her lovely sisters and brothers, Ida Royani Br. Tarigan, Rahel Br.
Tarigan, Nasrani Br. Tarigan, Edi Suranta Tarigan And Daniel Tarigan
for their support, motivation as well as encouragement.
Her lovely friends Punia simatupang, Tina Fitri Siregar, Cinta Laswarna
Berutu, Lisbet Ambarita, Riandi, Ichwan Sirait, Khalida Haris, Intan Barus, Selvianna, and all friends in English Literature A and B who can’t be
mentioned one by one for their support, tolerance and loyalties.
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ABSTRACT
Ester Br. Tarigan. Ellipsis in Ocean’s Eleven movie. A Thesis. English Department Faculty of Language and Arts. State University of Medan 2015.
This study deals with ellipsis in Ocean’s Eleven movie. The objectives of this study are to describe the types of ellipsis and the cause of ellipsis within the movie. the method of research is library research by reading some books related to this study. The data of this research are divided into 2, the data for research problem no. 1 are taken from conversation that have been chosen from some scenes and the data for research problem no. 2 are taken from transcript of characters of different profession (robbers and entrepreneurs). The technique of analyzing data is documentary technique, for research problem no. 1 the techniques are identifying the data, classifying the data and counting the occurrence of ellipsis and for research problem no.2 the techniques are identifying the data, counting the number of ellipsis by each profession and finding out the cause of ellipsis. The findings of research problem no.1 showed that the three types of ellipsis are used in the movie namely: (1). Nominal ellipsis (34.8%), (2). Verbal ellipsis (2.2%), (3). Clausal ellipsis (63,0%). The findings of research problem no.2 showed that the use of ellipsis by the robbers is about (64%) and the entrepreneur is about (36%). By this finding can be concluded that ellipsis can be caused by one’s profession related to the purpose.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE A.Cohesion... 6
D.Relation between Ellipsis and Movie... 19
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD A.Research Design ... 21
B.The Source of the Data ... 21
C.The Technique for Collecting Data ... 21
D.The Technique for Analyzing Data ... 22
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS, FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION A.Data Analysis ... 23
B.Findings ... 36
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A.Conclusions ... 42 B.Discussions... 42
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 4.1 The Number of Ellipsis in the Ocean’s Eleven Movie ... 23 Table 4.2 The Number of Ellipsis by Each Chapter in the Script of Ocean’s
Eleven Movie ... 28 Table 4.3 The Reason of Using Ellipsis Based on Their Profession in Script
of Ocean’s Eleven Movie ... 29 Table 4.4 The Words and Clauses That Were Omitted in the Movie ... 36 Table 4.5 The Word and Clauses That Were Omitted by Each Group of
Profession Within Movie Linus and Danny as Robbers ... 37 Table 4.6 The Word and Clauses That Were Omitted by Each Group of
Profession Within the Movie Tishkoff and Bennedict
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LIST OF APPENDICES
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deliberately when the meaning can be understood without them. This means that
in conveying sentence a word or clause can be omitted but must considered the
meaning of the sentence and does not makes any change.
This is common phenomenon in social and public speech in which
sentences are compacted by omitting some understandable words. Ellipsis may
happen in written or spoken language, in written for examples are the languages
used in advertisements, newspapers, brochures and etc, while in spoken it can be
found in TV and radio advertisements and movies.
The common purpose is on the basis of the Economy Principle to be quick
and easy; the use of ellipsis reduces the amount of time and effort in encoding and
decoding, avoiding redundancy and repetition, but only when it does not lead to
ambiguity, and to make the whole text cohere. Another reason why people use
ellipsis especially in movie is to minimize the boredom as when spoken language
is performed usually around the speaker can help the reader to understand. In
conversation, almost all the dialogues using ellipsis for if they don’t, the
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Movie which called film is one of entertainment program in electronic
media such television which uses spoken language to deliver messages. Movie
tells stories by conveying moving image, it also uses language as power of
communication, where movie need dialogue in spoken conversational exchange
between two or more people for encoding and coding meaning. Movie can be
divided into different genres such as romance, religious, action, adventure,
animations, biography, comedy, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy,
history, horror, musical, sci-fi, sport, thriller, war, and etc. In this modern era, the
quality of movie has been developed to increase society’s interest.
The researcher expects that this study may helpful for English Department
students as a learning media. English doesn’t only be learned by books but also by
watching especially western movie, as they are native of English, further the
students can practice their ability of speaking and listening by watching western
movie. In this research the writer intends to analyze the use of ellipsis in western
movie to help the students and the readers to identify the types of ellipsis use in
movie or in daily life can be found in conversation.
Such ellipsis is common in conversation situations, and as the scholars
point out ellipsis is typically more fully exploited in speech than in writing. There
are some factors which make a movie are interesting such as conversation among
the actors; one of those movies which dialogue is interesting is Ocean’s Eleven
movie. The writer choose Ocean’s Eleven movie, as this movie was ever booming
in 2001 caused the actors were famous and the dialogue within the movie used
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around the actors to find the aims of the speaker, on this way ellipsis is one of the
best choice.
Here is one example of dialogue which is used ellipsis within the movie:
JOSH : What'd you, uh, go to prison for?
DANNY : I stole things.
JOSH : What, like jewels?
A beat, then :
RUSTY : Incan matrimonial headmasks.
Looks are exchanged. Everyone digests that.
JOSH : From a museum?
DANNY : Gallery.
The previous research about ellipsis has done by Lumban Batu (2012) she
found that the 3 types of ellipsis found in the advertisement text of cosmopolitan
magazine and they are clausal ellipsis with 106 items (47.53%), nominal ellipsis
with 66 items (29.59 %), and verbal ellipsis with 51 items (22.86%). By
considering explanation above, this study will be focused on the types of ellipsis
and the causes of most dominant ellipsis in Ocean’s Eleven movie.
B. The Problem of the Study
By the explanation above this research will be focused on 2 problems,
namely:
1. What types of ellipsis are used in the script Ocean’s Eleven Movie?
2. What is the cause of ellipsis based on their profession in the script in
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C. The Scope of the Study
To avoid an overlapping and misleading of the discussion the researcher
has made some limitations in this study. This research is using Halliday and
Matthiessen (2004) theory. Research problem no.1 is limited by some parts
(scenes) to represent the whole parts (scenes) of the dialogue and those parts are
scene A15, 30, 47 and 48. Research problem no.2 is limited by transcript of the
characters with different profession based on the script. The profession that will
be compared in this movie is between robber and entrepreneur and each character
is limited by 20 conversations. To avoid an overlapping in research problem no.2,
2 characters from each profession has been chosen, they are Danny and Linus to
represent robbers and Bennedict and Tishkoff to represent entrepreneur.
D. The Objective of the Study
Related to the problem of the study, the objectives of this study are as
follows:
1. To describe the types of ellipsis in the script of ocean’s Eleven movie.
2. To describe the cause of ellipsis based on their profession in the script in
Ocean’s Eleven movie.
E. The Significances of the Study
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1. Scriptwriters, as they are demanded to create an interesting dialogues in a
play or role play, by these findings they may able to improve their
knowledge and skill in creating an effective and interesting dialogue.
2. Advertisers and others who work in advertizing company, they may enable
to create an effective and attractive statement.
3. These findings intended useful to students, especially English Department
students as they may enabled to determine the types of ellipsis used in
dialogue or text. Further, they are enabled to create interesting dialogue or
text or statement base on the purpose when they are join a company such
advertisement or scriptwriter.
4. Teachers or students who want to learn more about ellipsis and apply it
into their own text or language.
5. Next researchers who interested in ellipsis, these findings of the study may
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the ellipsis in Ocean’s Eleven movie, conclusion are
drawn as following:
1. The three types of ellipsis are used in Ocean’s Eleven movie; they are,
nominal ellipsis (34.8%), verbal ellipsis (2.2%) and clausal ellipsis
(63.0%). Clausal ellipsis is dominantly used in this movie.
2. The cause of ellipsis in Ocean’s eleven movie can be seen through the
speaker’s background such profession in the script. The use of ellipsis by
the robbers is about (64%) and the entrepreneur is about (36%).
B. Suggestions
In relation to the conclusion, suggestions are staged as the following:
1. Related to the findings it is suggested the next researcher to conduct
