THE ANALYSIS OF LAW JARGON USED IN JHON GRISHAM’S "THE CHAMBER"

ABSTRACT

The research entitled “The analysis of law jargon used in Jhon Grisham’s The Chamber is intended to describe the forms of law jargon, the meaning of law jargon and the function of law Jargon.

The research belongs to a descriptive research. The use of a qualitative research is suitable because this research creates an analysis procedure and does not use any statistical procedure. The data of this research are word, phrase and acronym containing Jargons which are used by novel The Chamber. In collecting the data, the writer uses noting technique. In analyzing the data, the writer writes and reads novel The Chamber written by Jhon Grisham. Then the data are analyzed by using qualitative data analyzing technique based on the forms, the meanings and the functions of law jargon.

The result of this research shows there are three forms of law jargon namely word, phrase and acronym. The forms of jargon mostly used in law are words that have the highest frequency of occurrence that is 51.9% of the total data and then acronym forms have the lowest frequency of occurrence that is 9.6%. All of law jargons have denotative meaning. It is shown by the meaning of every law jargon that has a logic relation toward the meaning in the dictionary. Law jargon in the novel The Chamber has three functions, namely (1) to express concisely, (2) to signal membership, (3) to make easier communication.