AN ANALYSIS OF JARGON FOUND IN “A CLOCKWORK ORANGE” MOVIE

AN ANALYSIS OF JARGON FOUND IN
“A CLOCKWORK ORANGE”
MOVIE

THESIS

BY:
RIZKA SHABRINA
09360289

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
2013
AN ANALYSIS OF JARGON FOUND IN

“A CLOCKWORK ORANGE”
MOVIE

THESIS


This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to
achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By:
Rizka Shabrina
09360289

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
2013

This thesis written by Rizka Shabrina was approved on 30th October, 2013.

By:

This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education

On 30th October , 2013

MOTTO AND DEDICATION

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ِ ‫بِسِم‬
‫ه‬
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ُ ‫يد‬
ُ ِ‫د ب‬
ُ ِ‫ه ب‬
ُ ‫كمُ ْ ُ ْس ََواَ يُ ِ ْي‬
ُ ُ‫ي‬

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“…Sesungguhnya Allah menghendaki kemudahan bagimu,

dan Allah tidak menghendaki kesukaran bagimu…”
(QS. Al-Baqarah: 185)

‫ع لى ك ل ع ل‬

‫ص ب ي ع‬

Kesabaran itu akan menolong segala pekerjaan

DEDICATION:
I dedicate this thesis to :
My beloved father and mother,
My four brothers
Three my sisters,
My friends,
And my husband to be 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil „Alamin, Wassholatu Wassalamu „Ala Rasulillah.
Praise is to Allah SWT, the main source of strength who always gives strength and
patience to finish this thesis. Shalawat and greetings may always be upon to the holy
prophet, Muhammad SAW.
The researcher would like to express her deepest gratitude to her first advisor
Dian Arsitades Wiranegara, M.Pd, and the second advisor Marzuki, M.Pd for their
suggestion, invaluable guidance and advice during the consultation period, and their
comments, valuable time, and correction during the completion of this thesis.
Her sincere gratitude and appreciation are also extended to Fardini Sabilah
M.Pd, the chairwoman of English Department at University of Muhammadiyah
Malang who has given the opportunity to the researcher in order to conduct the
research.
The last but not the least, the reseacher will say enormous love to her parents
(H.Abdurahman Saleh & Hj.Masnah) who always gives love, spirit and motivation.
Lovely, 4 sweet brothers (Lutfi, Qori, Salman, Ribi) & 3 cute sisters (Nabilla. Bella,
Raziva), without them, the researcher has nothing to do in this life. The researcher
addresses her longing for her dorm‟s mates since their accompanying for four years
staying in the green dorm, thank you (Santi, Nova, Rafika, Dian, Kiki, Zeze, and
Rani) her best friends ( Ninut, Cinbe, Bintan, Diah, Icha, Yuli, Nila, Ncy, Novita,

Ipeh, Unyu, Rista, Koy, Mustapha Krik, Hakan, Sidki, Rudy, Rifhan, Federico and
Hendo), and for all of her friends who cannot mention one by one for their
encouragement, love, care and pray so that she can finish this thesis.
Malang, 30th October 2013

Rizka Shabrina

TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL ......................................................................................................... i
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................................ ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ........................................................................... iii
ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................ iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................. v
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................... vi
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study ....................................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of The Problems ..................................................................... 3
1.3 The Purposes of The Study ..................................................................... 3
1.4 Significance of The Study ....................................................................... 4

1.5 Scope And Limitation ............................................................................. 4
1.6 Definition of The Key Terms .................................................................. 5
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Language ............................................................................................... 6
2.2 Sociolinguistics ...................................................................................... 7
2.3 Language Varieties ................................................................................. 8
2.3.1 Dialect............................................................................................. 9
2.3.2 Idiolect ......................................................................................... 10
2.3.3 Style ...............................................................................................11
2.3.4 Pidgin .............................................................................................11
2.3.5 Creole ............................................................................................13
2.3.6 Slang ..............................................................................................14

2.3.7 Jargon ............................................................................................14
2.3.7.1 The Type of Jargon .............................................................16
2.3.7.1.1 Phoneme ..............................................................16
2.3.7.1.2 Morpheme.............................................................17
2.3.7.1.3 Lexicon .................................................................18
2.3.7.1.4 Abbreviation .........................................................18
2.3.7.1.5 Acronym ..............................................................19

2.4 Movie ..................................................................................................... 19
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design .................................................................................... 20
3.2 Research Object .................................................................................... 21
3.3 Research Instrument .............................................................................. 22
3.4 Observation ........................................................................................... 22
3.5 Document Analysis ............................................................................... 22
3.6 Data Collection .......................................................................................23
3.7 Data Analysis ...........................................................................................23
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Findings .................................................................................. 25
4.1.1 Jargons Found In “ Clockwork Orange”Movie .............................25
4.1.2

The Types of The Jargon................................................................26
4.1.2.1 Phoneme ............................................................................26
4.1.2.2 Morpheme .........................................................................27
4.1.2.3 Abbreviation .......................................................................29
4.1.2.4 Lexicon ..............................................................................29


4.1.3

The Meaning of Jargon .................................................................29

4.2 Discussion ................................................................................................ 48

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

5.1 Conclusion ................................................................................................51
5.2 Suggestion .................................................................................................52

REFERENCES
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents such topics as: background of the study, statement of
the problems, purposes of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation,
and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows.

1.1


Background of The Study
Sociolinguistics is a study about language and society. In fact, study about

sociolinguistic cannot be separated from language and social interaction. People who
study language in a certain society, at the same time, study language. As stated by
Wardhaugh, (2006: 13):
“Sociolinguistics is concerned with investigating the relationships between
language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure
of language and of how languages function in communication; the equivalent
goal in the sociology of language is trying to discover how social structure can
be better understood through the study of language”.
Besides, Kreidler (1998: 19) says that a language is a system of symbols
through which people communicate. The symbols may be spoken, written, or signed
with the hands. In addition, Wardhaugh (2006: 1) states that “A language is what the
members of a particular society speak”. Based on that statement that language is the
part of society, language has very important position in social life for
communication. Consequently, people have to study about language early. By using
the language, people can express their feeling, opinion, idea, suggestion, and give
advice in order to make an easier communication to each other.

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There are many cultures in this world which become a factor for the
existence of the linguistic disparity and every community has their own language. In
addition, language variation is a basic fact of linguistic life. Hudson and Ferguson
(2006: 25) define that ‘linguistic items’ or ‘human speech patterns’ (presumably,
sounds, words, grammatical features, etc.) which we can uniquely associate with
some external factor (presumably, a geographical area or a social group). In this
case, Hudson and Ferguson agree that sounds, words, grammatical features, a
geographical area or a social group are causes the factor linguistic become variation.
The language variety makes language more unique and interesting. The language
variety may be classified more than one way. It includes dialect, idiolect, style,
pidgin and jargon. According to Tyagi and Misra (2011: 31):
“Jargon is a word or expression used by particular profession or group.
Jargon is difficult for other to understand (ODE), e.g. 'medical jargon,
''legal jargon'. Jargon can also mean clumsy language that is hard to
understand, synonymous with gibberish. Jargon should avoid except when
meant for a particular audience.”
Based on the theory above, jargon is usually found in community or group
such as professions, since, law, academic, and social community. It can be seen in
social network such as twitter, facebook, chat room, and blog. In the one hand, many
communities use jargon in their daily conversation. In the fact, people who want to
know what jargon that is used in all community must join in that community. On the
pervious study, Octaviani (2011) studied about “English Jargon use in Friends
Room, In Paltalk”. She found jargons that were used in that group such as “ty” thank
you, “brb” be right back, “gn” good night. Astutik (2008) she found the jargon in
Extravaganza program on Trans TV such as “mene ke tehe” that mean is “I don’t
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know”, “enyak- enyak” that mean is “ good”. In addition Susilo (2007) studied
jargon in Salon Yoes Community used by “Waria”. There are jargons found such as
“coco’ “that mean is “handsome”, “cumi-cumi” the mean is “kiss”, “kelinci” that
mean is “ small”. This phenomenon makes jargon is interested to be studied
In addition, a jargon is also found in movie. Movie is one of media audio
visual include sound, video, animation pictures etc. It not only gives entertainment
but also education. Movie can give many things to learn, such as about live, art,
science, technology. There are many jargons that are used in the movie, but there is
not any researcher who studied about jargon in movie.
Based on the reason above, the researcher is interested in investigating jargon
in the movie. In this study, the researcher will investigate jargons used in “A
Clockwork Orange” movie because there is a group of teenager in that movie use
many jargons. This movie is really interesting. It is unique from the title “Orange”.
In this case, “orange” does not mean a fruit which has orange color and sour taste,
but “orange” in this movie means “man” it’s taken from Melayu language “orang”.
There are many kinds of jargon used in this movie that is interesting to learn.
Hopefully, this analysis can enlarge language in society and enrich in sociolinguistic
study.

1.2 Statement of the Problems
1. What are jargons found in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie?
2. What type of jargons found in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie?
3. What are the meaning of jargons found in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie?

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1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.

To find out the jargons in “A Clockwork Orange “Movie.

2.

To classify the type of jargons found in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie

3. To describe the meaning of jargons found in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie.

1.4 Scope and Limitation of the Study
The scope of this study is jargon used in “A Clockwork Orange” Movie. The
limitation is focuses on the types of jargon and their meaning in that movie script.

1.5

Significant of The Study
The researcher expect

that

the study meaningfully contribute

to

sociolinguistics, theoretically and practically to increase the understanding of jargon.
Theoretically, the researcher hopes that the result of this study can give some
contributions for the reader to develop knowledge about jargon.
Practically, the findings of the study can give other reference, the researcher
stated as follows:
1. For the students who are interested in studying sociolinguistic, especially on
jargon.
2. For teachers, this study can give other reference in teaching sociolinguistics.
3. For education, this study can help student to learn jargon from other language
and other culture as well as perspective. Furthermore, the researcher expects
that the reader can take the benefit from the result of this study.

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1.6

Definition of Key Terms
There are several key terms used in this study which are necessary defined

as follows:
1. Analysis is separation or identification of whole into its component parts
(Webster’s dictionary, 2003:44).
2. Jargon is a word or expression used by particular profession or group. Jargon
is difficult for others to understand. Tyagi and Misra (2011: 31).
3. A Clockwork Orange is a movie in 1971, directed and produced by Stanley
Kubrick, adapted from Anthony Burgess' the novel of the same name in 1962.
this movie about violent images, facilitating in social commentary on
psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in
a dystopian future Britain.
(http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/clock.htm)
4. Movie is a sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient
rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/movie)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/movie

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