SYAFITRI, SYERLY
Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Brawijaya

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AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN TWILIGHT MOVIE SYAFITRI, SYERLY
Jurnal Ilmiah Mahasiswa FIB Vol 5, No 5 (2014)
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Brawijaya

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Keywords: Language functions, Twilight MovieLanguage is not only used to express intent of heart and mind to others, but also to deliver message from the addresser to the addressee. Therefore, language has some functions, such as emotive, directive, phatic, poetic, metalinguistic, referential, and contextual function. In this study, the writer examines  the language functions used by the main characters in Twilight movieto know the language functions used and types of the language functions that are mostly found in Twilight movie.This study uses qualitative approach to examine the language functions used in the main characters’ utterances in Twilight movie and their analysis. The data of this study are the utterances transcript of the main characters in Twilight movie containing language functios. After classifying the utterances into types of language functions, the writer gives the implementation of them.The results show that there are five language functions out of seven language functions found in the utterances of the main characters of Twilight movie. They are emotive function, directive function, phatic function, and referential function. From fifty utterances, the writer finds 21 referential function, 17 phatic function, 7 emotive function, 12 directive function, and 8 poetic function. Referential function is the mostly used language function since many utterances produced by the addresser give information to the addressee. The second language function that is mostly used is phatic function because when the addresser wants to know something, she/he has to open a conversation with others. The third language function used by the main characters is emotive function, since they often express their emotion to response the addressee. The other language function used by the main characters is directive function since the addresser orders the addressee to do something. Another language function used by the main characters is poetic function because the addresser gives information to the addressee by focusing on the real meaning of the message.The writer gives some suggestions to the next writer who wants to do further research. Firstly, it is suggested to the next writers to examine the order part of language functions. Secondly, the writer would like to suggest the next writer to examine language functions in other media such as novel, daily conversation, etc.