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The Register Variables in “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert (Functional Grammar Analysis). Skripsi

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English is the important language which is used by the people to communicate between one person and others around this world. When the people communicate with others, they have to know about the context of situation first. The context of situation is important in order that there is no miss communication when they communicate between one person and others. So, they can express their mind and convey some messages easily based on the situation. Besides, the listener can understand what they mean. The purpose of this research is to find out the register variables of “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, they are field (through the transitivity system), tenor (through the mood system), and mode (through the theme system). This research belongs to qualitative research. It describes the field (what is going on), tenor (the relationship between the speaker and addressee), and mode (how the language is used). The data of this research is register variables; they are field, tenor, and mode of dialogues used by Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe in “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert. The data were taken from “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert as the data source. The result of this research consists of three points. The first one, the field of this movie is what Liz does with Stephen, David, and Felipe in the journey to get the life balance because she divorced with his husband, Stephen. The second one is the tenor; participants involving in this movie are Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe. The relationship between Liz and Stephen, Liz is Stephen’s wife and Stephen is Liz’s husband. The relationship between Liz and David, Liz is David’s girlfriend and David is Liz’s girlfriend. And the relationship between Liz and Felipe, they are best friend. And the last one is the mode, language which is used by the actors in “Eat Pray Love” movie script is informal language. So, the writer concludes that the genre of this movie is romance. Therefore, the writer suggests that for the lecturer, they can use movie script as the material when they teach Functional Grammar to the students because they can get so many examples of register variables. Besides, she also suggests that for the students, they can get the understanding about register variables in Functional Grammar because the examples can get from the movie script. So, it can interest attentions of the students to study register variables in Functional Grammar.

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English is the important language which is used by the people to communicate between one person and others around this world. When the people communicate with others, they have to know about the context of situation first. The context of situation is important in order that there is no miss communication when they communicate between one person and others. So, they can express their mind and convey some messages easily based on the situation. Besides, the listener can understand what they mean. The purpose of this research is to find out the register variables of “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, they are field (through the transitivity system), tenor (through the mood system), and mode (through the theme system). This research belongs to qualitative research. It describes the field (what is going on), tenor (the relationship between the speaker and addressee), and mode (how the language is used). The data of this research is register variables; they are field, tenor, and mode of dialogues used by Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe in “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert. The data were taken from “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert as the data source. The result of this research consists of three points. The first one, the field of this movie is what Liz does with Stephen, David, and Felipe in the journey to get the life balance because she divorced with his husband, Stephen. The second one is the tenor; participants involving in this movie are Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe. The relationship between Liz and Stephen, Liz is Stephen’s wife and Stephen is Liz’s husband. The relationship between Liz and David, Liz is David’s girlfriend and David is Liz’s girlfriend. And the relationship between Liz and Felipe, they are best friend. And the last one is the mode, language which is used by the actors in “Eat Pray Love” movie script is informal language. So, the writer concludes that the genre of this movie is romance. Therefore, the writer suggests that for the lecturer, they can use movie script as the material when they teach Functional Grammar to the students because they can get so many examples of register variables. Besides, she also suggests that for the students, they can get the understanding about register variables in Functional Grammar because the examples can get from the movie script. So, it can interest attentions of the students to study register variables in Functional Grammar.

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English is the important language which is used by the people to communicate between one person and others around this world. When the people communicate with others, they have to know about the context of situation first. The context of situation is important in order that there is no miss communication when they communicate between one person and others. So, they can express their mind and convey some messages easily based on the situation. Besides, the listener can understand what they mean. The purpose of this research is to find out the register variables of “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, they are field (through the transitivity system), tenor (through the mood system), and mode (through the theme system). This research belongs to qualitative research. It describes the field (what is going on), tenor (the relationship between the speaker and addressee), and mode (how the language is used). The data of this research is register variables; they are field, tenor, and mode of dialogues used by Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe in “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert. The data were taken from “Eat Pray Love” Movie Script Written by Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt Based on the Book by Elizabeth Gilbert as the data source. The result of this research consists of three points. The first one, the field of this movie is what Liz does with Stephen, David, and Felipe in the journey to get the life balance because she divorced with his husband, Stephen. The second one is the tenor; participants involving in this movie are Liz, Stephen, David, and Felipe. The relationship between Liz and Stephen, Liz is Stephen’s wife and Stephen is Liz’s husband. The relationship between Liz and David, Liz is David’s girlfriend and David is Liz’s girlfriend. And the relationship between Liz and Felipe, they are best friend. And the last one is the mode, language which is used by the actors in “Eat Pray Love” movie script is informal language. So, the writer concludes that the genre of this movie is romance. Therefore, the writer suggests that for the lecturer, they can use movie script as the material when they teach Functional Grammar to the students because they can get so many examples of register variables. Besides, she also suggests that for the students, they can get the understanding about register variables in Functional Grammar because the examples can get from the movie script. So, it can interest attentions of the students to study register variables in Functional Grammar.

Key concepts: Register (sociolinguistics), Theme (computing), Context (archaeology), Order (exchange), Mode (computer interface), Art, Psychology, Linguistics

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