Stylistics features in the utterances of the "radio presenter" and the callers of the "english around the world" show by EBS radio station 101.25 FM Surabaya

Huang, Fie (2002) Stylistics features in the utterances of the "radio presenter" and the callers of the "english around the world" show by EBS radio station 101.25 FM Surabaya. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.

Abstract

This thesis is an analysis of Stylistics features in the utterances of Retha as the "Radio Jockey" and the callers in the "English around the world" show by EBS radio station. The writer chooses this topic because she would like to research the language styles by Retha and the callers in the conversation of each fragment and also she would like to know what kinds of feature occurred in the utterances since English has been an important language today and everything has been dealing to English. Moreover; this show, played by EBS required and obligated the callers to speak English if they were interested in speaking and practicing English. In analyzing the data, the writer uses the basic understanding theory of Functional Stylistics by Jan and Jiri. The writer used qualitative descriptive approach in analyzing the data and she generalized for the finding. After analyzing the data, the writer found that the language styles in each fragment are short, repetitive, substandard form, informal and code-mixing feature. The writer assumed that these features might be influenced by the limitation of time, the psychological pressure, the economical factors, and many others.

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