The Use of Figurative Language in Confession of a Shopaholic Movie

ABSTRACT

Oviyanti, Kholifah Rosyida. 2011. The Using of Figurative Language in Confession of a Shopaholic   Movie. Graduating Paper. English department  of  education  faculty  Salatiga  State  Institute  for Islamic Studies (STAIN). Counselor: Hanung Triyoko, S.S, M.Hum, M.Ed.

Keywords: Figurative Language, Message.

The purposes of this research are to find out the types of figurative languages used in the movie and to find out the messages conveyed in the movie. The methodology of this study is qualitative descriptive study; it does not need statistic approach to analysis the material. In this research the writer research about the using of figurative language in Confession of a Shopaholic movie. Qualitative research is a search of which the data written or oral words are descriptively analyzed. The result of this study is that are some of figurative languages used in the dialogue of the movie. From the analysis, it can be concluded that there are metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, paradox, metonymy and irony. This movie has many connotation meaning based on the data analysis. After analyzing the data, it appears that the use of figurative language in Confession of a Shopaholic movie is regarded as an instrument by the author to convey their ideas in the movie dialogue.

 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

The  role  of  the  language  as  a  tool  of  communication  is  very important. Generally, there are many countries in the world, and they have different languages. It can see the example of different languages in the world like an Indonesian language that is used by Indonesian people. English language is used among English people etc. They use the different language to communicate among their own societies, but if they want to communicate with other countries, they can use English language as an International language. International language has purpose to make their interaction effectively, although they have different language background. So, the people need more than one language to communicate and to interact with others among their region or countries. Baca Juga: SKRIPSI TENTANG WRITING NARATIVE TEXT

The people sometimes use more than one language to communicate with others. It happens because when someone is going to a different country, she/he has to understand the language in which those people use. With other word we must master the target language.

Movie is  form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. (http://www.thefreedictionary/movie.html, last access 19th march). Movie is part of human’s life. Movie is entertainment, knowledge, and education for people. Movie invites audience to come into new world, new life as if the viewers live there. The orientate it is as a literal art, communication and literature.

Literary language is sometimes defined in terms of its deviations from or distorstions of ordinary language. Like most generalizations, this idea is both useful and misleading. It suggest thet literary texts are characterized by the use of figures of speech or tropes. (Adrew Bernett and Nicholas Royle An introduction   to   literature,   critism   and   theory.   Key  Critical   Concepts (1995:65). Literature is a kind of art, usually written, that offers pleasure and illumination. It is usually written, for there is oral literature. (X.J Kennedy Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1983:65)

From that point of view, inside of literary, language is a particular kind of system for encoding and decoding information. The language itself can divide into spoken and written once. In language system, while in the written language, it is the representation of the spoken, which is very helpful for communication.

In modern times, a large number of artificial languages have been devised, requiring a distinction between their consciously innovated type and natural language.

Figurative language is language using figures of speech, is language that cannot be taken literally. (Laurence Perrine, An introduction to poetry (1978:61) February 13, 2009 was adapted into a film by summit Entertainment. The film was directed by P. J. Hogan and stars Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy  as protagonist. Screenplay was adapted by Tim Firth and Tracey Jackson. Confession  of  a  Shopaholic  debut,  young  and  adult  Comedy,  Drama, Romance and Adaptation film by author Sophie Kinchella.

Confession of a Shopaholic is gripping blend of Comedy and Romance: describes about Rebecca Bloomwood “infatuation with shopping”, in that film she has good relation with her friends. This is dialogue using figurative language. Baca Juga: SKRIPSI TENTANG VOCABULARY

For example:

Rebecca (Little Girl):  Real prices got you shiny (00:00:44).

 Mom prices got you brown things (00:00:48).

 I saw another world (00:01:04)

A dreamy world full of perfect things (00:01:06)

Language used in literary work has specification based on languages is using in other communication. Every word has many meaning and contains different  messages.  From  that  point  on,  it  took  the  writer  a  while  in conducting the study of figurative languages is used in “Confession of a Shopaholic movie”.

B.  Statements of the Problems

Based on the background of the study above, the research problem on the research can be formulated as follows:

1.   What  are  the  types  of  figurative  language  used  in  “Confenssion  of  a

       Shopaholic a Movie”?

2.   What are the Messages extended in “Confession of a Shopaholic Movie”?

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