PROCESS OF THE
WITCH’S
DIALOGUES
IN SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN MOVIE
A THESIS
Submitted to Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
SITI ARFAH
Reg. No 209220049
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
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ABSTRACT
Arfah, Siti. 2013. Process of the witch’s dialogues In snow white and the huntsman movie. A Thesis. English and Literature Department. Faculty of
Languages and Arts. State University of Medan.
This study is concerned with Transitivity System, focusing on the Process in Snow White and the Huntsman Movie (the main character of the movie: Ravenna). This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. There are six types of process in 145 clauses. The result of data analysis showed that the numbers in types of process were: Material Process (56.55%), Mental Process (13.1%), Relational Process (24.8%), Verbal Process (3.45%), and Existential Process (2.1%). It means that Material process is the dominant type of process used in Ravenna’s utterances (55.56%). The reason why material process was the most dominant was Ravenna displayed action scenes in the movie. Then the material process influences her act became action scene.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah, all the praise, honor and power belong to Allah SWT for
giving the writer blessing, love and mercy in accomplishing this thesis. In the
process of accomplishing this thesis, the writer was helped by many people who
have participated in giving helps and supports and would like to express the
writer’s greatest gratitude to:
1. Prof. Dr. IbnuHajarDamanik, M.Si. as the Rector of State University of
Medan
2. Dr. IsdaPramuniati, M.Hum. as the Dean of Faculty of Language and Art.
3. Prof. Dr. Sumarsih, M.Pd. as the Head of English and Literature
Department, and Dra. Meisuri, M.A. as the Head of Applied Linguistics
Program.
4. Dra. Rahmah, M.Hum. as the writer’s thesis adviser, for her guidance, comment, and precious time in supervising the draft of writing and alsoas
the writer’s academic adviser.
5. All lecturers in English and Literature Department for giving the writer
knowledge.
6. The writer’s beloved parents, Syafwan Harun and Al Mutia Sagala for
their prayer, love, attention, motivation and financial support. They have
given a lot of things the writer needed in accomplishing this thesis. Thank
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7. The writer’s dearest sister, Dian Ramadhani and Putri Rizky Amanda for
being the writer’s motivation.
8. All uncles and aunties who have given the writer supports during
accomplishing the thesis.
9. The writer’s beloved friends, “Youngkrouw Mamen CS”Yenni Pratiwi
Manalu, Nancy Kristiani Panggabean,Muhammad Irham Taufik,S.S ,Muhammad Lutfhy Shandy,Junaidi ,Ines Yudika Sihombing,Handrian Novry Sigalingging,Teguh K.I Tarigan Thanks for your lovely support.
10. The writer’s classmates in Applied Linguistics 2009 class A and B for all
the sweet memories especially for them who would like to graduate in
October 2013Anita Rebekawati,Septi,Sisna and Siswantia SARand the
others.
11. Muhammad Iwan Yusuf Nasution for your love and support. You helped
the writer so much in accomplishing this thesis. Thank you so much.
12. All people whose names can’t be mentioned for your help and support.
Thanks for everything. May Allah bless us.
Medan, September 2013 The Writer,
Siti Arfah
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 5
A. Theoretical Framework ... 5
1. An Overview of Discourse Analysis ... 5
2. Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) ... 6
3. Metafunctionof Language ... 7
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ... 43
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1. Examples of Material Process ... 13
Table 2.2. Examples of Mental Process ... 14
Table 2.3. Examples of Relational Process ... 14
Table 2.4. Examples of Behavioural Process ... 16
Table 2.5. Examples of Verbal Process ... 16
Table 2.6. Examples of Existential Process ... 17
Table 2.7. Participant ... 18
Table 2.8. Types of Circumstances ... 20
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix A (All Dialogues) ... 46
Appendix B (Ravenna Dialogues) ... 67
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language is the principal means whereby we conduct our social
lives.When it is used in contexts of communication, it is bound up with culture in
multiple and complex ways.
One part of culture is the language. Language as a meaning has a very
important function in people daily life. People need language to socialize with
others because they don’t want to get isolated. According to Halliday (2002) one
of the functions of language is to provide for interaction between people, by
allowing the expression of statuses, judgments, and the like; and this includes
participation in linguistic interaction. Language itself defines as the roles which
people may take situations in which they are communicating with one another.
In our daily life, language has many functions in order to help people in
communication. And all the functions of language were arranged in Sistemic
Functional Grammar (SFL). SFL is a theory about language as a resource for
making meaning based on a context of situation and a context of culture
developed by Halliday (Halliday, 1994)
According to SFL, there are three kinds of language functions called
Metafunction as one of gender in talk of language (Aragh, 2011: 25), they are
Interpersonal, Ideational, and Textual Function (Christope, 2001: 1504).
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(2012:9) there is a study in Ideational function called transitivity. Transitivity is a
set of grammatical System which construes the world of experience into set of
Process (Halliday in Caili, 2005: 111).
In Transitivity, there are processes which are used to analyze the clause.
In this study, the object that will be analized is a film entitled “Snow White and
The Huntsman”. The movie released on 2012. In the epic action-adventure Snow
White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer
than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked
ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been
training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dispatched to kill
her. Sam Claflin joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's
beauty and power.
(C) Universal Pictures.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/synopsis).
This study specially focus on analysing the character of “Ravenna” played
by “Charlize Therron”. Ravenna, known also as the Evil Queen, is the selfish and
tyrant ruler of Britain, who learns that her stepdaughter, Snow White, is destined
to surpass her as the "Fairest One of All". However, upon learning that the only
way to remain in power is by consuming Snow White's heart, Ravenna recruits a
Huntsman to capture and kill the young princess in exchange she tells him that she
can bring his wife back from the dead, which is a lie.
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Before this thesis, there were some thesis which also analyzed process of
transitivity system.Some of them have researched process in movie which relate
to this study werePratiwi,Siska(2012),Process Of A Schizophrenic’s Dialogues In
A Beautiful Mind Movie and Ginting,Ananda Putrianty(2011),Process in Movie
Dialogues Of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince.A thesis,Faculty Of
Language and Arts,State University Of Medan (Unpublished).
One of them has researched process in speech which relate to this study is
Sitorus,Muhammad Anshor(2011),The President Barrack Obama’s speech in his
visit to Indonesia.A thesis,Faculty Of Language and Arts,State University Of
Medan (Unpublished).
The writer make this movie becomes her study because this movie has a
good acting of the actors and the actress and got many awards. The writer
interested in analyzing the process of the Ravenna character because usually the
process of uttereces by a person influences what he/she acts.
B. The Problems of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the writer formulatees research
problems as the followings:
1. What are the types of process uttered by the witch in “Snow White and The
Huntsman”movie?
2. What’s the most dominant process uttered by the witch character in“Snow
White and The Huntsman”movie?
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C. The Scope of the Study
This study focuses on analyzing the process of witch’s dialogues found in
Snow White and The Huntsman movie. And the data will be analyzed by Process.
Process is the verb of the utterances.In this movie, the witch is played by Ravenna
as the supporting character.
D. The Objectives of the Study
1. To find out the types of process which are uttered by Ravenna as the witchin
Snow White and The Huntsman movie.
2. To find out the most dominant type process uttered by Ravenna as thewitchin
Snow White and The Huntsmanmovie.
3. To find out the reason why the witch uses that process dominantly.
E. The Significance of the Study
The findings of this thesis are expected to be useful for:
1. Students especially linguistics students to increase the understanding about
the process in transitivity system.
2. Researchers to use them as reference to conduct other related researches.
3. Giving contribution to others to increase knowledge, functional grammar in
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After describing the process of transitivity system and analyzing them,
there are some conclusions as follow:
1. All types of process of transitivity system occurred in Ravenna’s dialogue
from Snow White and The Huntsman movie, namely material process,
mental process, relational process, verbal process and existential process.
2. The dominant process in Ravenna’s dialogue from Snow White and The
Huntsman movie was material process (clauses 82, 56,55%).
3. The reason why material process was the most dominant process was
because Ravenna did many action scenes in the movie. Then the material
process influence her act become action scene.
B. Suggestions
Based on the conclusions given, the following suggestion are needed to be
considered:
1. It is suggested to other students to make a deeper analyzing about this study
2. It is suggested to researcher who wants to analyze other aspects of lexico
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