Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Communication represents media interaction of human being in submitting information, opinion and heart feeling 1 . Communications consisted of two kinds; they are verbal communication and non verbal communication. Verbal communication is communication by using words said or oral language. While non verbal communication is a communication which uses article as its media. To keep interaction, all speakers try to develop their communication whether it is a verbal or non verbal with purpose that the communications are always opened, the verbal communication is likely to become more special priority to keep interaction, because with verbal communication, each other can be more successful to make interesting the opponent of the speaker. These matters happen because they have intonation, style of speaking and body language. When we talk about a language asa communication instrument, we can not disregard human being as speakers. The speakers of a language will be very influenced by their social environment, a place where the speaker come from. In this case, language language can show what social classes the speaker have, what types of educational level they have, what types of environment they come from and others. 1 Alwasilah, A.Chaedar. 1983. Pengantar Sosiologi Bahasa. Bandung; Angkasa.p.4 Language can be classified into oral and written language. The oral language is a language which uses instrument of our oral, but the written language is generally used instrument of immanent stationery although there is correlation with element of other body to produce written language. Some examples of the written language are newspaper, magazine, poem, prose, short stories and others. Some examples of oral language in electronic media are TV, film, radio and so on. On the context of language, we will know about language function, language function can be seen from oral and written language. Language function represents about a language from its function. It can be presents what the true meaning from a language. Film represent work of art by using oral language. It is very popular or famous for the children, adolescent and adults. The writer uses the film as an object of his research because through this film, the writer want to know what kind the true meaning from the conversation in which present the social identity of Marcus Burnett in film “ Bad Boys II”. In this case, the writer is interested to study language function in a film of “Bad Boys II”. Moreover the writer also wants to study in depth about: - Marcus Burnett is a special figure in this film. In this film he uses some types of language to communicate with his opponent who have different background. And the writer wants to know what kind of language function that used by Marcus Burnett. - Feeling of curiosity the writer wants to know the background of language function used by Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys II.

B. Focus of the Study