AN ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY BARRACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE OBAMA IN OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
Main Author: | ANGGRAINI, DIFTA PUSPA ARDI |
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Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2015
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Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/25016/1/jiptummpp-gdl-diftapuspa-38377-2-chapteri.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/25016/2/jiptummpp-gdl-diftapuspa-38377-1-introduc-n.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/25016/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Language is the tool of people to communicate effectively. Every language has a style, style is a form of communication system. As a part of language, style has important meaning on spoken language. Language style is part of language variation that is used by speaker in formal and informal situation. In this study, the writer intended to find out the kinds of language style and the most dominant language style used by Barrack Obama and Michelle Obama in Oprah Winfrey show. In conducting this study, the writer uses qualitative research design, because it analyzes the data in the form of words. The object of this study is document dialogue used by the guests in the Oprah Winfrey Show. The writer makes document analysis as the key instrument that collected the data from the official website of Oprah Winfrey Show. Data analysis of this study is analyzing and classifying the form of kinds of language style used by Barrack and Michelle Obama, and identifying the most dominant form of language style. This study showed that Barrack and Michelle Obama used three kinds of language style; those are casual, consultative and formal styles. The writer found that casual style consists of 79 utterences, consultative style consists of 6 utterances, and formal style consists of 9 utterances in Oprah Winfrey show. It can be conclude that the most dominant kinds of language used by Barrack and Michelle Obama was use of casual style.