Lexemic Idioms Analysis in “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa” Movie

Rahmi Islami Nuryanti. 2015. Lexemic Idioms Analysis in “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa” Movie. Thesis. English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: Drs. Saadillah, M. Pd.\ud \ud Keywords: Idiom, lexemic idiom, “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa”movie\ud Idiom is a group of words which has a meaning that differs from the literal meaning of the words when their individual meanings are combined. Idioms make a language sound very creative, and also get others to think and figure out what the person is using the idioms might mean. Idioms are not always used to make things seem simpler, some idioms are really complicated and they do not mean what they sound like. They also allow people to express complex things in a more simplified way.\ud The problem formulation of this research are: What are lexemic idioms that show up in “Madagascar 2-Escape 2 Africa” movie, and what are kinds of lexemic idiom most show up in “Madagascar 2-Escape 2 Africa” movie, and what are meaning of the idioms that show up in “Madagascar 2-Escape 2 Africa” movie. The subject of this research is “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa” movie.\ud To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as, watching the movie and observe attentively, reading and transcribing the subtitle of the movie, identification, classification, analyzing. The writer analyzed all lexemic idioms from the movie. To collect all the data, the writer processed the data in procedural way, and analyze them properly.\ud The result of this research states that there are four kinds of lexemic idioms that shown up in “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa”movie, they are: verbal idiom, noun idiom, adjective idiom, and adverb idiom. From all four kinds of lexemic idioms that most shown up in “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa”movie is verbal idiom. Some of lexemic idioms that shown up in “Madagascar 2 – Escape 2 Africa”movie are verbal idiom, noun idiom, adjective idiom, and adverb idiom. Here are some idioms with their meaning, verbal idioms: back in; to reserve a vehicle into a space, Adjective idioms: good looking; alternative spelling of good-looking, beautiful, Noun idioms: hands up; surrender, Adverb idioms: anyway; anyhow