A SOCIO-SEMANTIC STUDY OF JARGON USED IN PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBEAN MOVIE MANUSCRIPTS

This research is aimed at describing the lexical and contextual meaning of jargon \nand also determines the proper speaker’s reasons. The data are jargons that are taken \nfrom movie manuscript entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl, \nPirates of the Caribbean: The Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At \nWorld’s End. \nIn collecting the data, the writer uses documentary method by selecting the jargon \nwords, which can be found in that movie manuscript. The first step of analyzing data is \nthat the writer described the lexical meaning and the contextual meaning of jargon in \nPirates of the Caribbean movie manuscripts and then compared the meaning lexically \nand contextually. Then in determining the proper reason of bringing jargon, the writer \nused SPEAKING theory of Hymes. \nHaving analyzed the data, the writer finds that there are 6 aspects of meaning \nbased on Poedjosudarmo theory that are the real meaning of the word is broader than the \nnew meaning represented by the same words, the real meaning of the word is narrower \nthan its new meaning represented by the same words, the new meaning and the real \nmeaning of the word can share some features of meaning whereas such of them has \ndifferent meaning, the real meaning and the new meaning of the word is identical each \nother but used in different field, the real meaning and the new meaning of the word is \nquite different, the new meaning does not have the real meaning. And also the reason of \nbringing jargon are showing location, showing place, showing device, showing \nprofession, showing direction, and showing means of sea transportation.