LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN “12 YEARS A SLAVE” MOVIE TRANSCRIPT BY STAVE MC QUEEN

ABSTRACT Yulistiono, Risnu Freli. Student Registered Number. 3213113139. 2015. Language Functions Used by the Main Character in “12 Years a Slave” Movie Transcript by Stave Mc Queen. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Nurul Chojimah. Keywords: Language Functions, Main Character, 12 Years a Slave, Movie Transcript. Language is an instrument of communication. Language carries functions through which the intention of communication can be revealed. This study investigates language functions used by the main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen. The objectives of the study are to find out the types of language functions used by main character in the movie and to describe the most dominant types of language functions found based on Roman Jakobson’s theory. There are six types of language functions, they are: expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, phatic, and poetic. The formulating of the research problems were: what types of language functions are used by the main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen. The main objective of this study is: to find out types of language functions are used by the main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen. Research method of this study: the research design on this study was descriptive method with qualitative approach. The data source of this study was the utterances from the main character in movie from began until the end and it is become data of analysis. To analyze data the writer did some steps. They are: (i) watching the movie, (ii) transcribing the data source gotten, (iii) analyzing types of language functions, (iv) describing and finding the most dominant language functions. The result showed that Solomon Northup as the main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen used all types of the language functions in the movie. They are; 43 emotive, 17 directive, 8 phatic, 4 poetic, 117 referential and 10 metalinguistic function. Referential function becomes the dominant types of language function used by the main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen. Referential function is used dominantly by Solomon Northup as the main character, because as a slave, he tried to reveal the truth by correlating every piece of evidence and giving information about his life that he was a free man not a slave that run away from other country. Based on the research question and discussion of the data presentation and analysis, the conclusion is describing deal with the language functions used by main character in “12 Years a Slave” movie transcript by Stave Mc Queen. The writer suggest for the further researcher that since this study is conducting language function by Roman Jakobson, it will be more interesting to analyze by using another theory on language functions and also using different object of research