A STUDY OF LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES BASED ON SOCIAL CLASSES IN TITANIC MOVIE

ABSTRACT

By
Efriasti Ahza
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This research entitled “A Study of Language Differences Based on Social Status in Titanic Movie” is intended to find out the kinds of language features used by upper class people, kinds of language features used by lower class people, and the similarities and differences of language features used by upper class and lower class people.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method because the researcher describes the data in form of words rather than numbers. The researcher uses dialogue used by men and women in the script of Titanic movie as the data source of this research. The technique used in collecting the data is noting technique. The researcher downloads the scripts of Titanic movie in the internet, then prints the scripts of Titanic movie. In analyzing the data, the researcher applies descriptive technique. She identifies and classifies the dialogues used by men and women in the scripts of Titanic movie and then she selects the dialogues by underlining the words, phrases, clauses, or sentences based on the diction, grammatical elements and pronunciation used by upper class and lower class people.

The result shows that upper class people in Titanic movie use standard forms of grammatical element, diction and pronunciation, and lower class people in Titanic movie often use vernacular forms of grammatical element, diction and pronunciation, but sometimes they also use standard forms. Language features used by upper class and lower class people are similar in conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs, colloquial, the pronunciation of [h] and the pronunciation of [r]. Meanwhile they are different in their hedge, verbs and modals, strong expletives, adjectives, and the pronunciation of ing [iŋ].