Language Style Used by Tony Stark in the Avengers: Infinity War
Abstract
Language styles create many impressions in the spoken form and writing. Therefore, language style becomes a form of inner expression that is typical of a speaker of the language. A person usually chooses a word or sentence in such a way as to achieve a specific goal for the listener. This study aimed to discuss the language style and its function that used by Tony Stark in the Avengers: Infinity War movie. The discourse of Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War movie were taken as the data for this study. The data has collected by observing and taking note the conversation of Tony Stark and other characters. It was analyzed by the Sociolinguistic theory from Holmes (2004). Based on the data analysis, the result shows that Tony Stark used more standard language to communicate with his Avengers partners. It is because this movie had a genre of action-science fiction which made Tony Stark face more serious and formal situations. There were also found five functions of language styles used by Tony Stark, there are: expressive function, directive function, referential function, phatic function, and poetic function.
Downloads
References
[2] Cambridge University Press. (n.d.). Slow down. In Cambridge dictionary. Retrieved February 23, 2021. Available from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slow-down
[3] Cambridge University Press. (n.d.). All right. In Cambridge dictionary. Retrieved March 16, 2021. Available from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/alright
[4] Dong, B. 2016. “Formality of the style, maturity or the artist – stylistic analysis in a poem in Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man”. Theory and Practice in language studies.
[5] Hawkin, Andrew. 2012. Iron Man., (cited in 2012. Available from https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/)
[6] Holmes, Janet. 2004. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. New York: Longman
[7] Keraf, Gorys. 2000. Diksi dan Gaya Bahasa. Jakarta: Pustaka Utama
[8] Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2015. Introducing Sociolinguistics. New Zealand: Taylor and Francis
[9] Rahayu, Ketut Febri. 2018. Language Style Used by Fangirls in Korean Idol Online Community. Denpasar: Udayana University.
[10] Rashid, Siti Khatijah Mat dan Hakim Zainal. 2013. “A Contrastive Study of Language Style al-Tawkid between Malay and Arabic Languages”. The National University of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur
[11] Traffis, Catherine. 2010. Alright or All Right—Which Is Correct? (cited in 2010. Available from https://www.grammarly.com/blog/alright-vs-all-right/#:~:text=People%20are%20often%20surprised%20to,as%20two%20words%3A%20all%20right.)
[12] Tololiu, Yunita Gloria. 2017. Language Style With Reference to the Movie Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (thesis). Denpasar: Udayana University.
[13] Trudgill, Peter. 1974. Sociolinguistic: An Introduction to Language and Society. Switzerland: Penguin books.
[14] Wardaugh, R. 1986. An Introduction to Sociolinguist. Australia: Blackwell Publishing
