LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS USED IN MARLIN AND DORY’S CONVERSATIONS IN FINDING NEMO MOVIE

This research deals with the analysis of Marlin and Dory’s conversation in Finding Nemo movie. The researcher analyzes the conversations of Marlin and Dory that contain irrelevant dialogue because all of the conversations have different contexts, meanings, and other factors of communication. It aims to find out the types of language functions used in Marlin and Dory’s conversation in Finding Nemo movie. This research uses language function theory by Roman Jakobson that are referential, emotive, conative, phatic, metalingual, and poetic function. This research is arranged with descriptive qualitative procedure because the data of the study are in the form of words. Then documentation technique is used to collect the data. The result of data analysis showed there were 35 data that used language function theory. Based on the result, the language function that was appeared in the conversation of Marlin and Dory in Finding Nemo movie were 15 times of referential function, 5 times of emotive function, 7 times of conative function, one time of phatic function, 7 times of metalingual function, and there is no poetic function used. From this research, it can be concluded that the most dominant type of language function that used by Marlin and Dory in their conversation is referential function