Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (UJoSSH)
Vol 6 No 1 (2022): UJoSSH, February 2022

Language Style used by Victoria in the Movie Entitled “The Young Victoria”

I Gusti Agung Vitariani (Universitas Udayana)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 May 2022

Abstract

This study is aimed at identifying the types of language style and analyzing the social factor influence the use of language style in the movie. The data of this study were taken from a movie entitled The Young Victoria and it was released on March 6, 2009. The documenation method through note taking technique was used to collect data. In analyzing the data, descriptive qualitatively using theory proposed by Joos (1967) to identify the types of language style and the theory context of situation from Holmes (2013) was applied to analyze the social fators influence the choice of language style. This study presented five examples of language style and it found that there were five kinds of language style, including frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style used by Victoria as the main character in the movie. Moreover, the usage of language style influenced by social factors, such as participants, setting, topic, and function.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

UJoSSH

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Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

Description

Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (UJoSSH) is an international and an open access journal which is published by Research and Community Services Institutes of Udayana University. UJoSSH focuses on the development of the humanities studies and social sciences. The aim of our journal is ...