AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”
AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”
THESIS
By:
APRI WIBISONO
09360044
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana
Degree in English Education
By:
APRI WIBISONO
09360044
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
(Albert Einstein)
Focus only for one purpose is the way to get it as many as you want.
(Mario Teguh)
Don’t judge the book from the cover; don’t make any speculation about someone that
you do not know the truth.
(Unknown author)
DEDICATION:
I dedicated this thesis to:
My beloved parents, my beloved siblings,
My beloved big family, my beloved friends,
My beloved special one, and my beautiful future.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah…. All praise to Allah SWT, because of his guidance, blessing, and
affection, I can finish this thesis.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Khairudin S.Pd, M.Pd as my first
advisor and Drs. Marzuki, M. Pd as my second advisor, who have been very helpful,
kind, and patient in giving ideas, advice, and valuable time during the process of
writing this thesis, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance ad advice during the
consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this
thesis.
I also want to express thanks to all lectures and examiners at the Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education at University of Muhammadiyah Malang, for
teaching me a lot of things in the course they taught.
Finally special thanks for my beloved mother (Dra. Anik Sulistiani, MM), father
(Ir. Ketut Priayanto), my beloved brothers Ayub Wirasukma, Agil Wicaksono, and
my big family who give me a spirit, give me a motivation of doing this thesis as soon
as possible. And special thanks to Palupi Yuiningtias, Koplak Communitiy and my
beloved friends of A2 class. The last but not least, thanks to all of the people around
me for helping me to finish this thesis. I hope Allah SWT will give them in return all
of the good things that have been given to me.
Finally, I hope that this thesis is useful to the reader in deeper comprehension on
education subject. I realize that this thesis is far from being perfect but I hope kind
suggestions and useful revision to improve this thesis are welcome. Therefore I will
be happy if there are other readers who are interested in studying further after reading
this thesis.
Malang October 30, 2013
the writer
Apri Wibisono
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL…………………………………………………………….........
LEGALIZATION…………………………………………………………….
MOTTO AND DEDICATIONS……………………………………………..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……………………………………………………
ABSCTRACT………………………………………………………………..
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………….
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
-
Background of The Study ................................................................
Statement of Problems ......................................................................
Purposes of The Study ......................................................................
Significance of The Study ................................................................
Scope and Limitation ........................................................................
Definition of Key term .....................................................................
1
3
3
4
4
5
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
-
Sociolinguistics ................................................................................
Language and Society .......................................................................
Language Variations .........................................................................
Dialect ..............................................................................................
Idiolect .............................................................................................
Bad language ....................................................................................
Swearing ..........................................................................................
Taboo ...............................................................................................
Vulgar ..............................................................................................
Slang ................................................................................................
Misuse ..............................................................................................
Movie…………….. ..........................................................................
Film as Literary Visual ......................................................................
The Type of Film by Genre ..............................................................
Characters in Movie .........................................................................
The Previous Study………………………….. ..................................
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
10
10
10
11
11
11
12
19
19
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
-
Research Design ...............................................................................
Research Instruments ........................................................................
Research Objects ..............................................................................
Data Collection ................................................................................
Data Analysis ...................................................................................
21
21
22
22
23
CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
-
Research Finding ..............................................................................
Discussion ........................................................................................
24
33
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
-
Conclusion .......................................................................................
Suggestion ........................................................................................
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIXES
35
36
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Lars and Trudgill Peter. 1990. Bad Language. London: Penguin Books
Ltd.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. 2008. Film Art: An Introduction Eighth
Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Corey, Melinda and George Ochoa. 2002. The American Film Institute Desk
Reference. USA: The Stone song press production.
Creswell, john W. 2007. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among
Five Approaches Second Edition. California: SAGE Publications, Inc
Nikolas, Coupland and Jaworski Adam. 1997. Modern Linguistics Sociolinguistics a
Reader and Coursebook. USA:
Bogdan, Robert C. 2007. Qualitative reserach for education: an introduction to
theories and methods. United States: Pearson education, Inc.
Peter, Trudgill. 1983. Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd,.
Willaim, Leap. L and Deumert Andrea. 2000. Introducing Sociolinguistics. England:
Edinburg
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert rodman, and Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to
Language Seventh Edition. USA: Thomson Wadsworth.
http://www.urbandictionary.com
http://www.etymonline.com
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of study
Language is important for society. People need language to communicate with
someone else in their daily life. Without language they cannot express their ideas,
emotions, and feelings in spoken and in written forms. Trudgill (1983:13) states that
language is not simply a means of communicating information, it is also a very
important means of establishing and maintaining relationship with other people. In
society language also has an important role for human beings to communicate with
each other. People cannot be separated with language because language what the
member of a particular society use for communication.
Language has important function in society, on how to communicate with each
other. However, speech in almost any society can take different forms, like a dialect
in one region is different with another region. For example the dialect between east
java and central java is different.
Sociolinguistics is a study of language and culture in society. It is an effort to find
correlation between language and society, and observe any changes that occur in our
society. Sociolinguistics related to human society, including culture, norm,
expectations, and context on the way language is used. Trudgill (1983:32) states that
sociolinguistics is part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and
cultural phenomenon. It investigates the field of language and society and has close
1
connections with the social sciences, especially social psychology, anthropology,
human geography, and sociology.
There are a number of different branches of literature such as drama, poetry,
novels, songs, short story, and movie. All of these are works of the imagination or the
capacity for invention. The primary aim of literature is giving pleasure and
entertaining those who are voluntary to it. In addition, literary works express a series
of happening such as their social problems, struggle of life and conflict. Movie gives
so many useful values and messages to the human life that is complex with many
conflicts to be faced. It can give contribution to build up sensitivity to the
environment either. Movie touches all of our lives, because it is a display that
represented from reality that happened in our society. By watching movie, the
audience can find the exploration of human personality, and find many different
characters of people and get information about various behaviors and attitudes. Those
things can make them mature and able to know the way how to handle the difficult
situations and understand about other people’s thought. Movie is made not only for
pleasure, but by watching movie, we can take some lessons related with human life
such as how they adapt each other, how they communicate with God, nature, or
everything around them.
According to Andersson and Trudgill (1990), bad language is a damn language. It
is used to show the expression or strong emotion and attitudes. Besides, it refers to
something that is taboo or stigmatized in the culture and should not be interpreted
literally. Bad language is usually used to express anger, and other strong emotions
that the speaker feels. Sometimes, it is also used to insults someone whom the
2
speaker hates. Some people use bad language to show their bad feeling. Somehow,
bad language is used in all of the aspect unexpected in a literary work such as film.
Most of western film contains of bad language, even it has a lot of good message for
them who watch it.
The researcher take “Legion” movie to help the reader to get information and
knowledge about bad language that used in it, because from the movie itself the
reader can understand about the meaning of it and they can learn about the usage of
bad bad language. Bad language is prohbitted to use in the society, because most of
people only know how to use it orally without thinking the consequences of bad
language that they have spoken.
1.2
Statement of the problem
Based on the background of study above, the problems are stated as follows:
1. What are the bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”?
2. What are the meanings of bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”?
3. Why are the bad languages used by the characters in the movie “Legion”?
4. What are the effects of bad languages to the charcaters involved in the movie
“Legion”?
1.3
Purpose of the study
The purpose of the study should be stated clearly from the beginning as the
principle guidance. They are formulated as follows:
1. To discover bad languages expressed in “Legion” movie
2. To investigate the meaning of bad languages expressed in “Legion” movie
3
3. To describe the reason why the characters used bad language in “Legion” movie.
4. To investigate the effects on bad language to the characters involved in “Legion”
movie
1.4
Significance of the study
The result of this study has both theoretical and practical values. Theoretically,
the writer expects that the result of this study can give contribution the readers to
learn and develop their knowledge about bad languages on movie. Practically, this is
important for the readers because by watching movie, the readers might appriciate
literary works. Furthermore, the writer expects that the reader will take the benefit
from the result of this study.
Besides, the result of this study is expected to be used as a scientific analysis
references for the teacher who wants to give the knowledge to their students about
bad language from another culture. It may also help further researcher who wants to
develop and continue another analysis on the related topic of this study.
1.5
Scope and limitation
The writer realizes that it is necessary to limit and scope this research it so that
the study can be more focused. The scope of this research is on “Legion” movie, and
limitation is on bad languages from “Legion” movie that was written by Scott Stewart
and Peter Schink.
4
1.6
Definition of key terms
The following definitions are important to make the readers to have the same
understanding for some terms used in the research.
Bad language is kind of language that contain bad grammar, bad spoken, and
informal language. According to Andersson (1990:35) Bad language is a far from
clear and unambiguous concept.
“Legion” is the title of the movie. Legion movie is an apocalyptic action thriller
film directed by Scott Stewart.
Movie is Movie can be art, photograph, or acting that presented onto a screen
that seen by audience. The American Heritage Dictionary of The English
Language (2006) movie is a combination of photographs projected onto a screen
to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
5
THESIS
By:
APRI WIBISONO
09360044
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
AN ANALYSIS ON BAD LANGUAGE IN THE MOVIE “LEGION”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana
Degree in English Education
By:
APRI WIBISONO
09360044
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
(Albert Einstein)
Focus only for one purpose is the way to get it as many as you want.
(Mario Teguh)
Don’t judge the book from the cover; don’t make any speculation about someone that
you do not know the truth.
(Unknown author)
DEDICATION:
I dedicated this thesis to:
My beloved parents, my beloved siblings,
My beloved big family, my beloved friends,
My beloved special one, and my beautiful future.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah…. All praise to Allah SWT, because of his guidance, blessing, and
affection, I can finish this thesis.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Khairudin S.Pd, M.Pd as my first
advisor and Drs. Marzuki, M. Pd as my second advisor, who have been very helpful,
kind, and patient in giving ideas, advice, and valuable time during the process of
writing this thesis, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance ad advice during the
consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this
thesis.
I also want to express thanks to all lectures and examiners at the Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education at University of Muhammadiyah Malang, for
teaching me a lot of things in the course they taught.
Finally special thanks for my beloved mother (Dra. Anik Sulistiani, MM), father
(Ir. Ketut Priayanto), my beloved brothers Ayub Wirasukma, Agil Wicaksono, and
my big family who give me a spirit, give me a motivation of doing this thesis as soon
as possible. And special thanks to Palupi Yuiningtias, Koplak Communitiy and my
beloved friends of A2 class. The last but not least, thanks to all of the people around
me for helping me to finish this thesis. I hope Allah SWT will give them in return all
of the good things that have been given to me.
Finally, I hope that this thesis is useful to the reader in deeper comprehension on
education subject. I realize that this thesis is far from being perfect but I hope kind
suggestions and useful revision to improve this thesis are welcome. Therefore I will
be happy if there are other readers who are interested in studying further after reading
this thesis.
Malang October 30, 2013
the writer
Apri Wibisono
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL…………………………………………………………….........
LEGALIZATION…………………………………………………………….
MOTTO AND DEDICATIONS……………………………………………..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……………………………………………………
ABSCTRACT………………………………………………………………..
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………….
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
-
Background of The Study ................................................................
Statement of Problems ......................................................................
Purposes of The Study ......................................................................
Significance of The Study ................................................................
Scope and Limitation ........................................................................
Definition of Key term .....................................................................
1
3
3
4
4
5
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
-
Sociolinguistics ................................................................................
Language and Society .......................................................................
Language Variations .........................................................................
Dialect ..............................................................................................
Idiolect .............................................................................................
Bad language ....................................................................................
Swearing ..........................................................................................
Taboo ...............................................................................................
Vulgar ..............................................................................................
Slang ................................................................................................
Misuse ..............................................................................................
Movie…………….. ..........................................................................
Film as Literary Visual ......................................................................
The Type of Film by Genre ..............................................................
Characters in Movie .........................................................................
The Previous Study………………………….. ..................................
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
10
10
10
11
11
11
12
19
19
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
-
Research Design ...............................................................................
Research Instruments ........................................................................
Research Objects ..............................................................................
Data Collection ................................................................................
Data Analysis ...................................................................................
21
21
22
22
23
CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
-
Research Finding ..............................................................................
Discussion ........................................................................................
24
33
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
-
Conclusion .......................................................................................
Suggestion ........................................................................................
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIXES
35
36
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Lars and Trudgill Peter. 1990. Bad Language. London: Penguin Books
Ltd.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. 2008. Film Art: An Introduction Eighth
Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Corey, Melinda and George Ochoa. 2002. The American Film Institute Desk
Reference. USA: The Stone song press production.
Creswell, john W. 2007. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among
Five Approaches Second Edition. California: SAGE Publications, Inc
Nikolas, Coupland and Jaworski Adam. 1997. Modern Linguistics Sociolinguistics a
Reader and Coursebook. USA:
Bogdan, Robert C. 2007. Qualitative reserach for education: an introduction to
theories and methods. United States: Pearson education, Inc.
Peter, Trudgill. 1983. Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd,.
Willaim, Leap. L and Deumert Andrea. 2000. Introducing Sociolinguistics. England:
Edinburg
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert rodman, and Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to
Language Seventh Edition. USA: Thomson Wadsworth.
http://www.urbandictionary.com
http://www.etymonline.com
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of study
Language is important for society. People need language to communicate with
someone else in their daily life. Without language they cannot express their ideas,
emotions, and feelings in spoken and in written forms. Trudgill (1983:13) states that
language is not simply a means of communicating information, it is also a very
important means of establishing and maintaining relationship with other people. In
society language also has an important role for human beings to communicate with
each other. People cannot be separated with language because language what the
member of a particular society use for communication.
Language has important function in society, on how to communicate with each
other. However, speech in almost any society can take different forms, like a dialect
in one region is different with another region. For example the dialect between east
java and central java is different.
Sociolinguistics is a study of language and culture in society. It is an effort to find
correlation between language and society, and observe any changes that occur in our
society. Sociolinguistics related to human society, including culture, norm,
expectations, and context on the way language is used. Trudgill (1983:32) states that
sociolinguistics is part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and
cultural phenomenon. It investigates the field of language and society and has close
1
connections with the social sciences, especially social psychology, anthropology,
human geography, and sociology.
There are a number of different branches of literature such as drama, poetry,
novels, songs, short story, and movie. All of these are works of the imagination or the
capacity for invention. The primary aim of literature is giving pleasure and
entertaining those who are voluntary to it. In addition, literary works express a series
of happening such as their social problems, struggle of life and conflict. Movie gives
so many useful values and messages to the human life that is complex with many
conflicts to be faced. It can give contribution to build up sensitivity to the
environment either. Movie touches all of our lives, because it is a display that
represented from reality that happened in our society. By watching movie, the
audience can find the exploration of human personality, and find many different
characters of people and get information about various behaviors and attitudes. Those
things can make them mature and able to know the way how to handle the difficult
situations and understand about other people’s thought. Movie is made not only for
pleasure, but by watching movie, we can take some lessons related with human life
such as how they adapt each other, how they communicate with God, nature, or
everything around them.
According to Andersson and Trudgill (1990), bad language is a damn language. It
is used to show the expression or strong emotion and attitudes. Besides, it refers to
something that is taboo or stigmatized in the culture and should not be interpreted
literally. Bad language is usually used to express anger, and other strong emotions
that the speaker feels. Sometimes, it is also used to insults someone whom the
2
speaker hates. Some people use bad language to show their bad feeling. Somehow,
bad language is used in all of the aspect unexpected in a literary work such as film.
Most of western film contains of bad language, even it has a lot of good message for
them who watch it.
The researcher take “Legion” movie to help the reader to get information and
knowledge about bad language that used in it, because from the movie itself the
reader can understand about the meaning of it and they can learn about the usage of
bad bad language. Bad language is prohbitted to use in the society, because most of
people only know how to use it orally without thinking the consequences of bad
language that they have spoken.
1.2
Statement of the problem
Based on the background of study above, the problems are stated as follows:
1. What are the bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”?
2. What are the meanings of bad languages expressed in the movie “Legion”?
3. Why are the bad languages used by the characters in the movie “Legion”?
4. What are the effects of bad languages to the charcaters involved in the movie
“Legion”?
1.3
Purpose of the study
The purpose of the study should be stated clearly from the beginning as the
principle guidance. They are formulated as follows:
1. To discover bad languages expressed in “Legion” movie
2. To investigate the meaning of bad languages expressed in “Legion” movie
3
3. To describe the reason why the characters used bad language in “Legion” movie.
4. To investigate the effects on bad language to the characters involved in “Legion”
movie
1.4
Significance of the study
The result of this study has both theoretical and practical values. Theoretically,
the writer expects that the result of this study can give contribution the readers to
learn and develop their knowledge about bad languages on movie. Practically, this is
important for the readers because by watching movie, the readers might appriciate
literary works. Furthermore, the writer expects that the reader will take the benefit
from the result of this study.
Besides, the result of this study is expected to be used as a scientific analysis
references for the teacher who wants to give the knowledge to their students about
bad language from another culture. It may also help further researcher who wants to
develop and continue another analysis on the related topic of this study.
1.5
Scope and limitation
The writer realizes that it is necessary to limit and scope this research it so that
the study can be more focused. The scope of this research is on “Legion” movie, and
limitation is on bad languages from “Legion” movie that was written by Scott Stewart
and Peter Schink.
4
1.6
Definition of key terms
The following definitions are important to make the readers to have the same
understanding for some terms used in the research.
Bad language is kind of language that contain bad grammar, bad spoken, and
informal language. According to Andersson (1990:35) Bad language is a far from
clear and unambiguous concept.
“Legion” is the title of the movie. Legion movie is an apocalyptic action thriller
film directed by Scott Stewart.
Movie is Movie can be art, photograph, or acting that presented onto a screen
that seen by audience. The American Heritage Dictionary of The English
Language (2006) movie is a combination of photographs projected onto a screen
to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
5