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“Ellen with Will Smith Full Interview” Talk Show: Emotive Language Functions PERFORMANCE “ELLEN WITH WILL SMITH FULL INTERVIEW” TALK SHOW: EMOTIVE LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS Kartika1, Faidah Yusuf2, Umar Thamrin3 Mahasiswa UIN Makassar1, Dosen UIN Makassar2, Dosen UIN Makassar3 Jln. H.M. Yasin Limpo, Samata. Gowa. South Sulawesi [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: This study focused to analyze the emotive language functions in the Ellen DeGeneres talk show. The objective of this study was to describe the emotive language functions work in the conversation performance by the actors “Ellen with Will Smith Full Interview” talk show. This study used qualitative method. The data were analyzed based on Jacobson’s theory. The result of this study showed that only 5 of 17 emotive language functions were applied. The emotive language functions applied were pleasure, like, dislike, surprise, gratitude. While the emotive language functions that not applied were hope, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, worry, preference, sympathy, intentions, want, desire, dear and disappointment. This study found that the most emotive function that frequently used in the Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show was “like expression”. The emotive function in the Ellen DeGeneres talk show worked to express the actor’s feelings to other people based on the context and situation of the conversation. Keywords: Performance, Talk Show, Emotive Language Functions Abstrak: Studi ini difokuskan untuk menganalisis fungsi bahasa emotif dalam talk show Ellen DeGeneres. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan fungsi bahasa emotifik yang bekerja dalam penampilan percakapan oleh aktor “Ellen with Will Smith Full Interview”. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data dianalisis berdasarkan teori Jacobson. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa hanya 5 dari 17 fungsi bahasa emotif yang diterapkan. Fungsi bahasa emotif yang diterapkan adalah kesenangan, suka, tidak suka, terkejut, syukur. Sedangkan fungsi bahasa emotif yang tidak diterapkan adalah harapan, kepuasan, ketidakpuasan, kekhawatiran, preferensi, simpati, niat, keinginan, keinginan, sayang dan kekecewaan. Studi ini menemukan bahwa fungsi paling emotif yang sering digunakan dalam Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show adalah “like expression”. Fungsi emotif dalam talk show Ellen DeGeneres berfungsi untuk mengekspresikan perasaan aktor kepada orang lain berdasarkan konteks dan situasi percakapan. Kata kunci: Pertunjukan, Talk Show, Fungsi Bahasa Emotif 1. INTRODUCTION understand what the speakers mean. The gesture is a form of non-verbal Therefore, the listeners must look at the communication, where the actions of the context of the conversation. The body are seen to communicate certain message received by the listener is messages. When the speakers deliver the influenced by the situation that occurs message, then shown with the gesture, during the conversation. By looking at so the listeners will more easily the conversation context, the listeners Performance “Ellen With Will Smith Full Interview” Talk Show: Emotive Language Functions (Kartika, Faidah Yusuf, dan Umar Thamrin) 1 can interpret the meaning of the (1989, p. 27), there are seventeen kinds conversation, it is called contextual of emotive functions. They are pleasure, meaning. When gesture occurs, then the displeasure, like, dislike, surprise, hope, listeners see the context, so the meaning satisfaction, dissatisfaction, occurs from the interpretation of the disappointment, worry, preference, listeners, it is called the emotive gratitude, sympathy, intention, want, function. Based on Jacobson (1960) in dear and desire. Expressions that occur Chaer, the emotive function is a function when speakers interact with other people where the speakers express their attitude can provide understanding to the towards what they are speaking about. listeners. For example, when someone is That is the speakers not only express angry with something, he or she will their emotions through language, but show his or her attitude in a way of also show those emotions with a gesture silence, even being asked he or she will when speaking out. not answer. This makes the listeners The emotive function relate to the understand the expression and gives the characters of the conversations. impression that the speakers are angry. Characters cannot show their emotion This research can help the audience only though expressions, but they have to understand well the use of the to be contextual or in a single way. In emotive functions by actors in the talk the research which was conducted by show. The researcher wants to analyze a (Wahyuni, 2014) in her thesis, she found talk show instead of a film or novel that the characters perform expressive because in a novel or film the emotions function intends to vent some feelings are shown by the characters are arranged and evoke the same feeling from other by the author of the novel, while in a people based on the context of the talk show, emotions expressed by the conversation. So, the emotion was not presenter or guest star. It appeared is meaningful without context. spontaneous without any engineering. It The emotive function is also called concerns daily life that people's the expressive function. The emotive emotions arise spontaneously without function is a function of the language being planned. used to express human feelings. For Moreover, the talk show that example, feeling satisfied with analyzed is the Ellen DeGeneres talk something, sad, happy, angry, and so on. show. Ellen DeGeneres talk show is a Based on Jacobson (1960) in Cook talk show that funny so that the audience Jurnal Ilmiah Bina Bahasa Vol. 13 No. 1, Juni 2020: 1-11 feels entertained when watching this talk grammar, the functional approach is less show. However, it never be known well document (Brown and Yule 1983, whether the comedies presented by p.1). According to Jackson and Ellen are indeed funny or there is a Stockwell 2011 in Sean Sutherland, message which is not known by the discourse analysis can be done to either audience. So, the researcher is interested spoken language or written language. to analyze the Ellen DeGeneres show as Some author makes a distinction an object of research. The researcher between “spoken text and written text”. formulated research question to get the Written text is text in the form of writing main purpose of this study is how do the such as newspapers, letters and so on. emotive language functions work in While spoken text is text in the form of performance by the actors “Ellen with tape recordings that is transcribed into Will Smith Full Interview” talk show. writing. Based on the explanation above, the According (Jinadu, 2006) in UK researcher analyzed the emotive Essay, that there are three main points in language functions in the Ellen discourse analysis: DeGeneres talk show’s transcript used 1. Discourse analysis deals with the (Jacobson, 1960). There are seventeen nations of the sentence in grammar kinds of emotive functions; pleasure, as the basic level from which displeasure, like, dislike, surprise, hope, grammatical or semantic meaning satisfaction, dissatisfaction, derive. disappointment, worry, preference, 2. In Discourse analysis, message and gratitude, sympathy, intention, want, shared experience became dear and desire (Jacobson 1960) in Cook interactive. (1989, p. 27). 3. There is the concept of context, and in discourse analysis is the meanings of discourses. 2. METHODOLOGY 2.1 Discourse analysis 2.2 Context The discourse analysis is Context is a collection of committed to an investigation of what text, which describes the situations in that language is used for. While the writing. The context is the domain of formal approach as a long tradition reference of a given text, the co-text, manifested in innumerable volumes of Performance “Ellen With Will Smith Full Interview” Talk Show: Emotive Language Functions (Kartika, Faidah Yusuf, dan Umar Thamrin) 3 the genre of speech event in interpreted in terms of cultural progress, the discourse constructed beliefs and practices of the upstream, the socio-cultural people. environment assumed by the text, In conducting communications, and the specific utterance situation at context relates to the element of hand, subject to a continuous process communications. (Hymes, 1974) of construction and revision as the mentioned the acronym of discourse unfolds. SPEAKING. Based on (Jinadu, 2006) in 1. S: Setting and scene, it includes UK Essay, there are four types of both the scene and setting. This is relevant contexts are often identified where the activities are taking by discourse analysis. They are the place and the overall scene in situational context, social context, which day is a part. cognitive context, and cultural 2. P: Participants, it includes the context. people present and the roles they 1. Situational context is one of the play, or the relationships they recognized contexts which take have with other participants. into account the physical 3. E: Ends, the purpose and the goals environment of the discourse. of communication can be studied. 2. Social context is the context that 4. A: Acts, it includes both form and operates among interlocutors content. It is any actions can be which concerns the interpersonal considered a communicative and interactional relationship. action if it conveys meaning to the 3. The cognitive context is the participants. context which deals with the 5. K: Key is a tone of speech. It is message that goes on from the the speech sounds or was speaker to the hearer functions delivered. between their shared experiences. 6. I: Instrumentality is the channel 4. Cultural context involves the through which communication worldview of both the speaker flows can be examined. and the hearer which may be Jurnal Ilmiah Bina Bahasa Vol. 13 No. 1, Juni 2020: 1-11 7. N: Norms are the rules guiding using intonation or by the use of talk and its interpretation can performance expressions. reveal meaning. Based on Jacobson's (1960) in 8. G: Genres are textual categories Cook (1989, p. 27), there are seventeen kinds of emotive functions that used by of speech, such as proverbs, speakers to describe their emotions as apologies, prayers, small talk, and follows: so on 1.
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