Code Choices Used by The Characters in The Movie Entitled Merry Riana – Mimpi Sejuta Dolar (A SociolinguisticsApproach) BAB 0

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CODE CHOICES USED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE
ENTITLED MERRY RIANA – MIMPI SEJUTA DOLAR
(A SociolinguisticsApproach)

THESIS
Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment of Requirements
for The SarjanaSastra Degree in English Department
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
SebelasMaret University

By:

ANASTASIA SELVIANA ELVITA LUSIANI
C0311002

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCES

SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
SURAKARTA
2016
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PRONOUNCEMENT

I truthfully state that this thesis entitled “Code Choices Used By The Character In
The Movie Entitled Merry Riana – MimpiSejutaDolar “is originally written by

myself. All of the information that relates to other people’s work and theories are
written in the form of quotations and included in the bibliography. If this
pronouncement is proved incorrect, I as the researcher will accept any academic
consequence and penalty, including the withdrawal of the thesis and academic
degree.

Surakarta, August 2016

Anastasia SelvianaElvita L.

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MOTTO

“Ask, and you will be given; seek, and you will find; knock, and you
will be opened”
(Matthew 7 : 7)

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DEDICATION

Jesus Christ,
Parents,
Family,
Teachers, and
Friends.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
All praise and thanks are given to Jesus Christfor blessingus, giving mercy
so that this thesis entitled “Code Choice in the Film Entitled Merry Riana –
MimpiSejutaDolar ”,could be finished.

This acknowledgement is dedicated to people who help and support me in
completing the thesis. I also want to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation

to all people who help me finish this thesis:
1. Prof. Drs. RiyadiSantosa, M.Ed., Ph.D, as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural
Sciences, SebelasMaret University, for the motivation given to me and
also thesis approval.
2. Drs. AgusHariWibowo, M.A, PhD, as the Head of English Department,
for the support in academic and non-academic fields.
3. Dr. Sri Marmanto, M.Hum, as my thesis consultant, for the guidance, and
suggestions along the process of writing this thesis.
4. All of the teachers of English Department Program for the valuable
knowledges, the inspiring stories, and the great experiences that they have
shared to me.
5. My parents, HanySoesanti andAnangSuparto, for the prayers, and also
spirit. My beloved brother and sister, BonusiaAgung and Bibiana Lora,
and also my lovely nephew and niece, Bless and Nyota, for always
supporting me to finish my thesis.
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6. My best friends, HeppiVanadian, Andreas Pandu, AnditiaGalih,
Laurentius Bob for always encouraging me to finish this thesis during my
hard times. I love you all.
7. My dhusialita family, Devi Nirmala, PrativiKartika, TabitaDianova,
VirinaSekar, NurrahmaRestia, MahardhikaBekti, Anggita B. W, Lukas
Ardhi and all friends of English Department 2011, who always give
support, help, and happiness. Thank you for creating great memories in my
college life.
8. My temanmacam – macam group, Noyek, Henri, Dylan, Joni, Herry, Dika,
and Mas Yoga for the exciting memories in campus.
9. Everyone who is not mentioned above but contributes to this thesis
writing, thank you very much.
Finally, I hope that this thesis can give benefits to all readers.

Surakarta, August 2rd, 2016

Anastasia Selviana E.L.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE ............................................................................................................. i
APPROVAL OF THESIS CONSULTANT ................................................. ii
APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS .................................... iii
PRONOUNCEMENT .................................................................................... iv
MOTTO .......................................................................................................... v
DEDICATION ................................................................................................ vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................. vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................... ix
LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................... xi
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... xii
CHAPTER I


INTRODUCTION

A.Background ..................................................................................... 1
B. Problem Statement .......................................................................... 5
C. Research Objectives ........................................................................ 5
D. Research Significance ..................................................................... 6
E. Research Limitation ......................................................................... 6
F. Research Methodology .................................................................... 7
G. Thesis Organization ........................................................................ 7
CHAPTER II

LITERATURE REVIEW

A. Sociolinguistics ............................................................................... 9
B. The Social Dimension of
Communication
...................................... 10
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C. Language Choice ............................................................................. 13
D. Domain of Language Use ................................................................ 14
E.Ethnography of Communication....................................................... 16
F. Formal and Informal Language ....................................................... 20
G. Summary of Merry Riana – MimpiSejutaDolar.............................. 22
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design .............................................................................. 26
B. Source of Data and Data .................................................................. 27
C. Sampling .......................................................................................... 27
D. Technique of Collecting Data ......................................................... 28
E. Technique of Analyzing Data .......................................................... 28
F. Data Coding .................................................................................... 29
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSIONS
A. Data Analysis .................................................................................. 32

B. Discussions ...................................................................................... 90
CHAPTER V

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

A. Conclusions ..................................................................................... 96
A. Suggestions ..................................................................................... 98
BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................... 99
APPENDICES

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1.1.Domain in Language Use……………………………………….. 15

Table 4.1The code used by the characters in the movie Merry Riana Mimpi
SejutaDolar ...................................................................................................... 34

Table 4.2The Percentage Of The Reason Of Choosing The Code In
Friendship Domain. ......................................................................................... 79

Table 4.3 ThePercentage of Reason of Choosing Code in Office
Domaian ........................................................................................................... 90

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ABSTRACT
Anastasia SelvianaElvitaLusiani. C0311002. Code Choices in the Film Entitled
Merry Riana – MimpiSejutaDolar (A Sociolinguistics Approach).Thesis:
English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, SebelasMaret University.
This research was done to analyze code choice in the film entitled “Merry Riana –
MimpiSejutaDolar”. It was conducted to reveal the code used by the characters,
the way the characters used the code and the reasons of the characters used the
code in every domain in the film.
This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data were collected by
using total sampling. The source of data is the conversation in the film entitled
“Merry Riana – MimpiSejutaDolar”. There are 50 data which wereclassified into
three domain language use.
Some results are found in this research. First, there are several codes found in the
movie. They are English, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, Switching English – Bahasa
Indonesia, Switching Indonesia – English, Switching English – Malay, Switching
Bahasa Indonesia – Malay and Switching Malay - English. Second, in this movie,
the characters used the codes in two ways. They are formal way and informal
way. The formal way mostly occurs in the office domain. Meanwhile, the
informal way mostly occurs in friendship domain and family domain. Third, there
are 19 reasons of the characters in choosing the code found in this film. They are
expressing thanks, surprised, to show intimacy, share the same dialect, to express
in-love, to say good bye, to give compliment, to emphasize the message, to
continue the interlocutor, to share the same group identity, to strengthen the
argument, to encourage, to express disappointment, to ensure, to ask permission,
the change of interlocutor, to show the higher position, to express anger, and to
show intimacy.
Keywords:sociolinguistics, code choice

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