LANGUAGE STYLES IN THE MOVIE “THE

EDGE OF SEVENTEEN”

SILVIA MARGARETHA
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 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Language style expresses human feeling. it produces

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
language by oral and written form. in writing, the
writer puts the utterances form in spoken language.
while, in oral form, the speaker delivers a message
in order to be heard and know what the speaker
wants directly. Joos stated that speaking is very
formal or very informal choice are being governed
by circumstance. it can be concluded that
conversation can determine the situation with whom
they talk and adapt where the place is.
 PROBLEMS OF STUDY

1. What kinds of language style used by Nadine in The Edge of

Seventeen movie?
2. What are the function of language style used by Nadine in The Edge
of Seventeen movie?
 AIMS OF STUDY

1. To identify kinds of language used by Nadine in The Edge of

Seventeen movie.
2. To find out the functions of language style used by Nadine in The
Edge of Seventeen movie.
 SCOPE OF DISCUSSION

1. The study only talks about a language which is used in The Edge of
Seventeen movie. This movie has many characters but the analysis
will be focused on the main character.
2. The conversation or dialogue of Nadine as main character is the
object of analyzing this study and using theory proposed by Martin
Joos.
 RESEARCH METHOD

1. DATA SOURCE
The data source of this study is American coming-of-age comedy-drama movie written and
directed by kelly fremon craig entitled The Edge of Seventeen.
2. METHOD AND TECHNIQUE OF COLLECTING DATA
This study used documentation method to collect the data.
3. METHOD AND TECHNIQUE OF ANALYZING DATA
This analysis will be analyzed by using qualitative method.
4. METHOD AND TECHNIQUE OF PRESENTING THE ANALYSIS
To presenting the data, this study used descriptive method to analyze the data that related in this
study.
 LITERATURE REVIEW

• “The Language Style in Crazy Stupid Love Movie” by Ida Bagus Aris Premana
(2016).
• “Intimate Style Used by Rosie in Love Rosie (2014) Movie” by Moh. Fatkhul
Amri (2016).
• “Language Style Used by Andrew And Margaret in “The Proposal” Movie” by
Nabillah Rachmawati (2015).
• “A Reflection of Stylistic Variation in Sociolinguistics” By Huiying Zhang, A
Lecturer of Liaoning University, China (2012).
 CONCEPTS
CONCEPT OF STYLE
• Joos (1967: 50) stated that speaking is very formal or very informal choice are being governed by
circumstance. It can be concluded that conversation can determine the situation with whom they talk
and adapt where the place is.
• According to Coupland (2007), style refers to ways of speaking – how speakers use the resource of
language variation to make meaning in social encounters.
• According to David (1980:337), style refers to the relationship among the participant in a language
activity especially the level of formality they adopt.
• Related to Chaika (1982:29) said that style refers to the selection of linguistic forms to convey social or
artistic effects.
 THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

This study will be analyzed by using Martin Joos’s theory as the main
theory for language style and Roman Jakobson’s theory as the
supporting theory for the function of language.
 1. MAIN THEORY

According to Martin Joss (1967:153), there are five types of language styles:
• Frozen style
• Formal style
• Consultative style
• Casual style
• Intimate style
 2. SUPPORTING THEORY

Jakobson (1960) argued that language always has a poetic function, linguistics must account for it,
and that it could and should therefore account for poetry and other artistic forms as well. In his
theory, the functions of language has five parts, there are:
• Referential Function (the cognitive ordering of propositional meaning)
• Emotive function (affective and expressive meaning)
• Conative function (organizing meaning relative to an addressee)
• Metalingual function (language ‘glossing’ or referring to itself)
• Phatic function (language marking that people are in social contact)
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