17 These data are classified into intimate style. Joos said in his theory that
intimate style is a private language developed within families, lovers, and closest friends. Joos also said that it might embarrass some for non-group members to hear
them in-group intimate language. The conversation above could embarrass non- group members to hear their conversation as Brad said something intimate to Lisa.
2.3 Relevant Studies
a Lubis 2009 in her thesis entitled “ An analysis of The Five Language Styles
Found in the Movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” found four of the five language styles as frozen was not found in the movie. She said that the
relationship between language and society can be seen in the relation of certain language forms that is called variation or style language.
She also said to understand the language, the hearer cannot only know the meaning that the
speaker says, but also the situation whether it is public or private, formal or informal, who is being addressed and who might be able to overhear.
b Ayunda 2009 in her thesis entitled “An Analysis Of The Language Styles
Found in The Movie “Charlie Wilson’s War”” found all of the styles in the movie. Each style has different percentage in her thesis. She said in the
conclusion that
language as the central means of communication has a potency for making communication successful and establishing social togetherness if it is
used well because most speakers are not aware either of the phenomenon or of its significances.
c Citra 2014 in her thesis entitled “An Analysis of The Language styles found
in the “King’s Speech” Movie” found all of the language styles in that movie. She concluded that language styles can be identified by the situation of the
18 speaker is speak, whether it is formal or casual, public or private, who will be
the listener when we speak, whether it is our friends, our parents or even the person that we never know before.
Based on the researches above, it may be concluded that there are some functions to the reader by reading the analysis. The reader will know about the language styles
more completely as the studies show all about language styles by Martin Joos, such as the characteristics, the example, and the classification of the language styles. We
can understand the language styles itself by reading the example of each language styles. Beside those, the reader can also know where to use every language styles in
the right place and condition.
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