Vertical Register, Context of Situation, “The Runaways Movie Script"
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Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Na’imah, Liswatin
Subject
Bahasa Inggris
Datestamp
2013-05-06 04:36:51
Abstract :
As an international language that is most used in the world, English has some varieties used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. A variety of language that results differences in the situation of use called as register. Register has two part, they are horizontal register and vertical register. Then vertical register consist of five elements; they are frozen, formal, consultative and intimate. There are several factors influenced the used vertical register include of situation, condition, the relationship between the participants, various social age, and many other factors The purpose of this research is (i) to find out the types of vertical register and how are their contexts of situation used in “The Runaways†movie script by Floria Sigismondi. The data of the research are gathered from Joan Jett’s dialogues in The Runaways movie script by Floria Sigismondi which is defined as vertical register and the type of the data is written data. The data in the form of utterances are defined as vertical register include of frozen, formal, consultative, casual and intimate. This qualitative research is conducted descriptively. According to the analyzing of the data of this research, the writer found some styles in it. First, the kinds of register in “The Runaways†movie script by Floria Sigismondi used by Joan Jett are three registers. They are consultative register (3), casual register (88) and intimate register (18). The numbers of register used by Joan Jett are 109 sentences. As vertical register is one of language variation in English, the writer suggests to the students and teachers should give more attention to vertical register in order to enrich the language variation and improve the English language skills, especially their speaking skills. The students and teachers also have to pay more attention in choosing the suitable register based the context of situation.
As an international language that is most used in the world, English has some varieties used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. A variety of language that results differences in the situation of use called as register. Register has two part, they are horizontal register and vertical register. Then vertical register consist of five elements; they are frozen, formal, consultative and intimate. There are several factors influenced the used vertical register include of situation, condition, the relationship between the participants, various social age, and many other factors The purpose of this research is (i) to find out the types of vertical register and how are their contexts of situation used in “The Runaways†movie script by Floria Sigismondi. The data of the research are gathered from Joan Jett’s dialogues in The Runaways movie script by Floria Sigismondi which is defined as vertical register and the type of the data is written data. The data in the form of utterances are defined as vertical register include of frozen, formal, consultative, casual and intimate. This qualitative research is conducted descriptively. According to the analyzing of the data of this research, the writer found some styles in it. First, the kinds of register in “The Runaways†movie script by Floria Sigismondi used by Joan Jett are three registers. They are consultative register (3), casual register (88) and intimate register (18). The numbers of register used by Joan Jett are 109 sentences. As vertical register is one of language variation in English, the writer suggests to the students and teachers should give more attention to vertical register in order to enrich the language variation and improve the English language skills, especially their speaking skills. The students and teachers also have to pay more attention in choosing the suitable register based the context of situation.
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