The year was 1939 in England when peoples require a king who was firmness, clarity and resolve. They did not need a king who stammered
punctuated with tortured silences Ebert, 2010. The truth is Albert as the king George VI is not supposed to be a king since he has older brother named Edward.
However, Edward wants to marry a commoner widow that it is crossed the constitution rule. It is decided that Albert will be the next king, King George VI.
Considering his new task, Albert as the king tries his best to be proper in speaking in front of his people.
His struggle finds a good therapist coming to an end when he meets Lionel Logue. Through this movie, there is a lot of conversation as a part of
therapy that is significant to the overcoming of stuttering. During the therapy session, the language that is used by Lionel Logue is very significant to the
healing process of the king‟s stuttering. This movie has many good reviews and recognition. The multiple
nominations that this film receives take forever to read so here are the awards the film won
. The King‟s Speech received 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film in that year. At the 83rd Academy Awards,
The King‟s Speech has won 4 Academy awards for Best Picture, Best Director Tom Hooper, Best Actor
Colin Firth, and Best Original Screenplay Seidler. Besides the four categories it has won, the film has received a total of 12 nominations at the 2011 Oscars
Filmmakers, 2015.
3.3 Research Data
The printed script of this movie consists of 90 pages. Thorough it, the conversation between the king and the therapist happens in the most frequency
and in the random scenes. Moreover, not the entire scene contributes the significant thing to be analyzed in this study.
The collection of the data is limited to the selection of conversation conducted by the king and the therapist. It has significant role in the development
of the study and its connection to the related theories. How the language that is us
ed by the therapist help overcoming the king‟s stuttering is becoming the object of this study.
The first cycle is chosen to collect the data. The data are the conversation and interaction between the king and the therapist. Therefore, the entire
conversation and interaction are used and analyzed. It is because the conversation and interaction as the data are significant to the entire study in order to prove the
significance of language use used by the therapist to overcome the king‟s stuttering.
3.4 Data analysis
The process of collecting data started with the interest in analyzing the method overcoming the stuttering as it related to the use of language.
Furthermore, it was about the disorder in language practice, in this case speaking. To be able to discuss the study thoroughly, the study took an interest of movie
titled The King‟s Speech directed by Tom Hooper. This movie told about the king
who had stuttering and the therapist who had succeeded in overcoming the king‟s stuttering especially with the power of language use.
This study was going to be a discourse analysis study. It focused on the language use and how the language use gave contribution to the particular field
like in politics or identity background. Since the study started with discourse PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
analysis, the writer had to find supported theory to be used to analyze the language use in the movie. Theory of seven building blocks of language by James
Paul Gee and systemic functional grammar by M.K Halliday were used as the main theories.
3.4.1 Seven Building Tasks of Language Seven Building Tasks of Language consisted of seven elements that were
important to reveal the message. Significance revealed the struggle to build the equality between the therapist and the king. It also showed the sentences that
were effective to encourage the king to be confident. Activities showed the sharing and listening activity in order to be comfortable with the treatment. The
mechanical treatments such as reading, singing, and swearing were part of the activities
that were significant to overcome the king‟s stuttering. Identities revealed the characteristics of the therapist and the king during the interaction. It
turned out that the therapist, in order to win the king‟s interest, had brave and patient characteristics. Meanwhile, the king had prideful and bad temper
characteristics that were quite challenging for the therapist to conquer those characteristics. Relationships accentuated on two links. The first was the
nicknames that were used during the interaction related to the equality that the therapist wants to build. The second is the relation of the text “to be or not to
be..” that is read by the king with the purpose of the treatment using the sentence. It was found out that the therapist used the text to check the symptom of the
king‟s stuttering. By checking it, the therapist could conduct the proper treatment. Politics that were expected to reveal the judgment of bad and good turn out to be
good intention that the therapist wanted to bring. He offered friendship in the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
interaction to the king so that the king could be comfortable to share his bad experience relating to his stuttering. Connections dealt with mental and relational
process as part of Systemic Functional Grammar. They revealed the sensing and thought of the main characters during the process of interaction. It stressed that
the king who at first was a difficult character could compromise at the end of the treatment. The sign system and knowledge used material process to reveal the
process of treatment. It showed how the therapist used the action verb to approach the king and how the king used action verb to respond the therapist
intention. The tools of inquiry is the means to verify the analysis in Seven Building
Tasks of language including the significance, activities, identities, relationships, connection, politics and sign system and knowledge. They are social language,
conversation, discourses and intertextuality. They can be inferred through several questions i what social languages are involved? What sorts of grammatical
patterns indicate this? Are different social languages mixed? How so? ii what socially situated identities and activities do these social languages enact? iii
what discourses are involved? How is “stuff” other language “mind stuff” and emotional stuff” and “ world stuff” and “interactional stuff” and non-language
symbol systems, etc relevant in indicating socially situated identities and activities? iv in considering this language, what sorts of relationships among
different Discourses are involved? How are different Discourses aligned or in contention here? v what Conversations public debates over issues or themes
are relevant to understanding this language and to what Conversations does it contribute institutionally, in society, or historically, if any? vi how does
intertextuality work in the text, that is, in what ways the text quote, allude to, or otherwise borrow words from other oral or written sources? What function does
this serve in the text? 3.4.2 Systemic Functional Grammar
Systemic Functional Grammar used Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual process to analyze the interaction between the therapist and the king. Ideational
function consisted of several processes such as material, mental, relational, existential, verbal and behavioural process. However, the dominant processes
acquired from the data were material, mental and relational process. They showed the significance that was revealed through the process of doing-and-happening,
process of sensing and process of being and having. They represented the process of the therapist‟s approaching method and the king‟s process of accepting the
treatment. Interpersonal function was analyzed through the combination of Mood system and tone. They represented the mood of the therapist and especially the
king through the process of the interaction using the declarative, imperative and interrogative mood. The textual function emphasized the use of marked and
unmarked theme selection. The characters used those theme selections to emphasize the intention whether to object or to agree with each other.
In the transitivity function, the material process is verified through the question what diddodoes the actors do?
that represents the „doing-and- happening‟. It can also be asked using what happened to the actors?. The
mental process is proved in the use of tenses compared with material process. In mental process, the progressive tense cannot be conducted since mental process
includes the perception of the senser. Relational, then, explains the less effort of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
„being‟ than the use of material and mental process. It means that relational process concerns about „being‟ rather than „doing‟ material and „sensing‟
mental. Ideational and textual show the concept of Theme system, Mood system
and Marked Theme selections. Theme is not always a nominal group, but it can be some other class of group or phrase that after all has some function in the
experiential structure of the clause. Theme is simply asking what happened, meaning that I want to tell you that something happened. Theme also offers the
declarative, exclamative, imperative and interrogative that is proved based on the use of punctuation such as full stop, question mark and exclamation. Marked thee
selection is proved by i nominal group functioning as Subject, ii the finite operator of verbal group plus nominal group functioning as Subject, iii nominal
group, adverbial group or prepositional phrase functioning as interrogative wh- element, iv verbal group functioning as predicator, plus preceding
don‟t if negative, v
let‟s plus preceding don‟t if negative, and vi nominal group or adverbial group functioning as exclamative wh- element.
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CHAPTER IV
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
This chapter shows the result of the data analysis that has been preceded. The data are the twelve parts of interaction in the form of clause and chunk of
language. This chapter is divided into two sections; Seven Building Tasks of Language analysis and Systemic Functional Grammar analysis and the standard
treatment which is used as the comparison of the recent treatment. The bold parts inside the analysis represent the emphasizing of each element. In addition, the
tables which are tables of Textual function help to organize the data analysis into easy reading. Lines are also used in showing the Interpersonal function in order to
get the systemic reading as well.
4.1 Discourse of the Script of the Interaction between the Therapist and
