A STUDY OF CODE SPOIGN BY THE MAIN CHARACTER ON THE INDONESIAN MOVIE ..Af)A APA DENGAN CINTA''

A STUDY OF CODE SPOIGN BY THE MAIN CHARACTER ON
THE INDONESIAN MOVIE
..Af)A APA DENGAN CINTA''

ATHESIS
Ae a Partial Fulfillment of the Rcquircmente
for the Sariana Pendidikan Degree
in Englirh Language Teaching

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
WIDYA MANDAII SURABAYACATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
APRIL 2OO4

APPROVALSHEET( 1)
This thesisentitled The CodesSpoken by the Main Characteron the IndonesianMovie 'Ada

Apa dengan Cinta." preparedand submittedby Lulu Ariana hasbeen approvedand acceptedas
apartial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the SarjanaPendidikanDegreein English Language
Teachingby the following advisors.

Advisor (1)
Dr. AgustinusNgadiman.M.Pd.

(2)

APPROVAL SHEET (2)

This thesis hasbeenexaminedby the committeeon oral examinationwith a grade
of
on Saturdav.
March2T-2001.

Chairman

Member


Dr. msrinrs-Nsadiman
Mernber

Mernbcr

Approvedby

Drleuaii;us Ngadirnan.
M, Pd
TrainingCollege
Deanof Teacher

Fleadof EnglishDepartrnent

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Allah SWT who has given me strength to finish this thesis
so that
I can accomplish my thesis.I would also like to expressmy appreciation
and rny deepest

thanks to the following people;
1. Dr. AgustinusNgadiman,M.pd, my advisor,who hasgiven his varuabletime to guide

rne

to accomplishmy thesis.Thank you for the patienceand the suggestionyou have given

for

the progressof rny thesis.
2. Mateus Yumamamto M.Hum, who has carefully read my thesis and given valuable inputs
for my thesis.
3. My family, who have supportedme, and thanks for the prayer.
4. My best friends; Sevi, Angelin4 Maria, Novia, and Mira for their good humor and support.
5. Imawati, who has sharedinformation about all things related to thesis accomplishment.
5. David Reed for being a very best friend and supportingme to accomplish my thesis.
6- All of my friends and people whom I cannot mention one by one but who have helped me
accomplishthis thesis_

Aprll2004


Lulu Ariana

ABSTRACT
Ariana, Lulu. 2004. The CodesSpoken by the Main Characteron the IndonesianMovie "ADA
APADENGANCINTA" "AdaApaclenganCinta." Thesis.TheEnglishDepartmentof Widya
Mandala Catholic Universitv Surabava.

Key word

: Codes,Dialect, Characters.

The study examined the codes variety spoken by the main characteron the movie "Ada
Apa dengan Cinta." The writer choosesthe movie becausethe movie is very popular Indonesian
movie in the year of 2000s. Besides the movie also contains variety of codei. As such, the
objectivesofthis study are: (1) to find out the codesspokenby the main character.(2) to find
out the reasonsof the main character speaksthe code. (3) to find out the characteristicof the
codespoken.
This study about code choice is done to give a better understandingabout code choice
towards movie which is Indonesian movie. During her analysis about the code choice in the

movie, the writer limits the analysisonly on the main character'sutteranceswhen she speaksto
different people in different kinds ofsituations. .
This researchusesan observationmethod where the writer does not include take part in
the conversation because the data being analyzed is the main character's utterances in the
movie. There were some stepstaken by the writer in collecting the data. First of all, the writer
chose the movie to be analyzed.The writer watched the movie she had chosenfor few times in
order to be able to write down on a piece of paper the dialogues in the movie which contain
code switching. There were 14 dialogues altogether were analyzed..In the 14 dialogues, the
writer identified the code choice done by the main character when the main character talks to
different persons in different situations.
In the findings ofher thesis it is found out that the code spokenby the main characterare
varied and she does not use standardIndonesianlanguagein all of her dialogue. She usesmixed
code like Indonesian, Jakartanese,English anC sometimes a combination between the three
languages.The code variation that the main character usedappearsin all ofher languagewhen
talking to different personin different situation.
At the end of the chapter, the writer gives some suggestionsfor the future study code
choice in different kind of situationsand area.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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APPROVALSHEET(2).

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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TABLEOFCONTENTS..-.
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ABSTRACT

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CI{APTER 1 : INTRODUCTION


l.lBackgroundofthestudy...
1 . 2S t a t e m e n t s o f t h e p r o b l e m . . .
1.3 Objectives
of rhestudy...
1 . 4S i g n i f i c a nocfet h es t u d y . . .
1.5Theoretical
framework..

.........1_3
............4
... ... .4
. . . . . . . . . . . .4.
.. .4_7

1.6Scopeandlimitationof thestudy

...... ........ g

l . T D e f i n i t i o n skoef y t e r m s . . .


..............g
.8

1.7.4Betawior Jakartanese
Dialect..

..........9

l.7.5Character.........

..........g

l.SOrganizationofthethesis...

. . . . . . . . .l 0

CHAPTERII : REVIEWOF RELATEDLITERATURE
2.1 TheUnderlying
Theories...

2 .1 . 1 S o c i o l i n g u i s t i c s . . .
2.l.2Blhngualism......

.. ....... I I
..... ll_13
... 13_14

2 l .3 Attitudeto language...

14

2 .1 .4C o d eMi xi n g ...

15

2 .1 .5D i a l e ct.

15

2 1.6LanguageandDialect


rc

2.1.7DialectandEducation

n

2.2 SomePreviousRelatedStudies...

17_18

CI{APTERIII: RESEARCHMETHODOLOGY
3.1 TheNatureof the StudyandtheResearch
Design...
3 .2 T h eS u b j e ct...

lg
........ 20

3.3TheSources

ofData...

.... .. 20

3.4 TheResearch
Instruments...
3.5 TheProcedures
of DataCollection.
..

20_21
... ... . 21

3.6 TheProcedures
andthe Techniqueof
Analyzingthe
Data

... 2t_23

vl

CHAPTERIV: THE FINDINGSAND THE DISCUSSIONoF THE FINDINGS
4.1 The Findings...

24

4. 1.1The Findingsof dataanalysisin dialogue1.........

24

4. l. l. I The code(s)spokenby the main character

i n d i a l o gue
I ..... ..

....... 24_ 25

4.1 1.2Thereasons
of thecode(s)spokenby themaincharacter
i n d i a l o g ul e . .. . .. . .

.........25-26

4.1.',.3 Thelinguisticsfeatures
of thecodespoken
i n d i a l o g u1e. . . . . . . . .
4 .1 .2T h eF i n d i n gosf dataanalysis
in dialogue
2.........

.........26_28
.......... 2g

4.1.2.1Thecode(s)spokenby themaincharacter
in dialogue

2S_29

4.1.2.2Thereasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a logue
2 .........

.. 29_3 0

4.1.2.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the codespoken
i n d i a l o g u2e. . . . . . . . .
4 .1 .3T h eF i n d i n gosf dataanalysis
in dialogue
3.........

30-31
.......... 3l

4.1.3.1Thecode(s)spokenby themaincharacter
i n d i a l o g u3e. . .. . .. . .

. . .. . .. . . 3 1 - 3 2

4.1.3.2Thereasons
of thecode(s)spokenby the maincharacter
in
dialogue
3 .........

VII

...32-33

4.1.3.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the code spoken
indialogue3.........
4 . l . 4 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y si n
i sd i a l o g u e4 . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . .3 3 _ 3 5
. . . . . . . _. . 3 6

4.1.4 1 The code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u 4e . . . . . . . . ,

36

4.1.4.2The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
in dialogue4 . .. . .. ..

36

4_1.4.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the codespoken
i n d i a l o g u4e. . . . . . . . .

4 .1 .5T h e F i n d i n gosf dataanalysis
indialogue5......

7
1
)T

............3g

4.1.5.1Thecode(s)spokenby themaincharacter
i n d i a l o g u5e. . . . . . . . .

38

4.1.5.2Thereasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u5e. . . . . . . .

jg

4.1.5.3 The linguisticsfeaturesof the codespoken
indialogue5........
4.1.6TheFindings
of dataanalysisin dialogue
6... ...

3g4t
............ 4l

4.1.6.1 The code(s)spokenby the maincharacter
i n d i a l o g u6e. . . . . . .

...........41

4.1.6.2Thereasons
in of thecode(s)spokenby the maincharacter
in
d i a l o g u6e. . . . . .. .

vlll

. . . . . . . . .4 2 4 3

4.1.6.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the codesooken
in dialogue
6.........
4 . 1 . 7T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y si n
i sd i a l o g u e7 . . . . . .

4344
............ 44

4.1.7.1 The code(s)spokenby the main character
indialogue7.........

.......,.....44

4.1.7.2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e7 . . .. . . . .

. . .. . . 4 5 _ 4 6

4.1.7.3 The linguisticsfeaturesof the code spoken
in dialogue
7 . . .. . .. . .
4 . l . 8 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l yi ns d
i si a l o g u g
e. . . . . .

... .46_47
..............47

4. 1.8.I The code(s)spokenby the main character
indialogue8.........

...... 47_48

4.1.8.2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e8 . . . . . . . .

.........48

4.1.8.3The linguisticsfeaturesofthe code spoken
indialogue8.........
4 . l . 9 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l yi n
s idsi a l o g u 9e . . . . . .

......4g
..............4g

4. 1.9.1The code(s)spokenby the main character
indialogue9.........

.........49

4.1.9.2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main characterin
d i a l o g u e9 . . . . . . . . .

IX

.........50_51

4.1.9.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the code
sooken
indialogue9.........

.. ........51

4 .l . l 0 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y s ii sn d i a l o g u e
10... .

......... 52

4. 1.10.I The code{s)spokenby the main
character
in dialogu1
e0......

.. .. ... 52

4.1.10.2 The reasonsof the code(s)spoken
by the main character
t h ec o d e ( si)n d i a l o g u e1 0 . . . .

. . . . . . . . .5 3

4. 1.10.3The linguisticsfeaturesofthe code
spoken
i n d i a l o g u1
e0 . . . . . .

.........53

4 .l . l l T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y si insd i a l o g u e
11...

..

......... 54

4.1.11.1The code(s)spokenby the main
character
i n d i a l o g u e1 1 . . . . . .
4.1.11.2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby

54_55
the main character

i n d i a l o g u e1 1 . . . . . .

......... .55

4.1.11.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the codespoken
i n d i a l o g u e1 1 . . . . . .
4 . l . l 2 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y s ii n
sdialogue
12... ,..

.......55
.... .. 56

4.1.12.1The code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e1 2 . , . . . .

... ....56

4.1.12. 2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby
the main character

indialogu1
e2.....

, . . . .. . . 5 7

4.1 12.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the code sooken
in dialogue12......
4.1.13TheFindingsof dataanalysisin dialogue13... ...

57 _58
.. . ..

58

4.1.13.1The code(s)spokenby the main character
in

dialogue

13......

. . . . . . . .. . . 5 g

4.1.13. 2 The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e1 3 . . . . .

..........59_60

4.1.13.3The linguisticsfeaturesoithe codesDoken
indialogue
13......
4 . l . 1 4 T h e F i n d i n g s o f d a t a a n a l y si ni sd i a l o g u e1 4 . . . . . .

......60
...........61

4.1.14.1The code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e1 4 . . . . . .

.........61

4.1.14-2The reasonsof the code(s)spokenby the main character
i n d i a l o g u e1 4 . . . . . .

62

4.1.14.3The linguisticsfeaturesof the code spoken
i n d i a l o g u e1 4 . . . . . .
4.2 The Discussionof the findings...... ...

62_63
... .... 63_64

CI{APTERV: CONCLUSIONAND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusion

65

5.2. Suggestion

66

XI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

.. . 66_67

LIST OF APPENDIXES
1. Dialoguesof the movie beinganalyzed

68-77

2. The analysisof Cinta's utterances

78-80

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