<![CDATA[Keywords: Language Function, New Moon, Discourse, Discourse Analysis.This study is about “Language Function Used by Bella Swan the Main Character of New Moon Movie”. The writer used movie as the subject of this study. There are two research problems in this study, namely: (1) What are the language functions used by Bella Swan as the main character of “New Moon movie”, (2) What is the most dominant types of language functions and the reason of using a certain type of language function used by Bella Swan as the main character of “New Moon movie”. The writer used the theory of Roman Jacobson to analysis the language function contained in this movie.This study uses qualitative approach by using document analysis to analyze the data. The data source of this study is the subtitle of “New Moon movie”. Whereas, the data of this study is Bella Swan utterances which contain language function that exist in “New Moon movie”.In this study, the writer found 173 utterances containing language function produced by Bella Swan which consist of 51 emotive functions, 30 conativefunctions, 14 phatic functions, 43 referential functions, and 34 metalinguisticfunctions, and there is no poetic function used by Bella Swan in this movie.The language function mostly used by Bella Swan as the main character in New Moon movie is emotive function which is used 51 times. The writer suggeststhe English learners of English Department as well as for further researchers whoare interested in making thesis about discourse analysis especially languagefunction use other objects and theories for their further research.]]>
Copyrights © 2014
