LANGUAGE STYLES IN “THE RON CLARK STORY” MOVIE: A SOSIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Language styles is one of sociolinguistic study that dialogue of how the people use the language to express feeling and ides to others depending on with whom and where they are speaking. Language style not only used by the people in daily life communication, but also in visual fiction such a movie. This research was descriptive research aimed to describe types of language style used by the characters in “The Ron Clark Story” movie. This analysis was based on five language styles proposed by Martin Joos‟s theory. This research applied content analysis and descriptive qualitative methods in which the data was collected by watching the movie then finding out the conversation that contains language style. The data of this research were taken from the dialogue of the movie that was transcribed into textual form. The researchers focused on those five types of language style. Later on, the researchers classified them based on language style, then finding the dominant language style. The researchers obtained two conclusions; first, there were found five language styles in “The Ron Clark Story” movie, second from those five types, casual style was dominant language style used in the movie. For more detail as follows: frozen style was found 2 data, formal style was found 15 data, consultative style was found 20 data, casual style was found 27 data, and
intimate style was found 9 data.