A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES OF STAR WARS’ MASTER YODA IN THE STAR WARS ANMATED MOVIE ENTITLED THE CLONE WARS.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33884/07tzrd25Keywords:
Stylistics, Word Order, Irregularities, Ethnography of Communication, Star WarsAbstract
This research aims to identify and classify the types of irregularities on word orders and the elements of ethnography of communication which affect the changes on the utterance orders produced by a character named Master Yoda in the Star Wars animated movie: The Clone Wars. The data of this research are the utterances produced by the character. In order to answer the research questions, qualitative method and the technique of purposive sampling are applied. Based on the analysis, there are 28 utterances produced by Master Yoda that can be analysed and belong to several types of word order irregularities. Those orders consist of subject verb inversion 12 times (42.9%), complement fronting 10 times (35.7%), object fronting 3 times (10.7%), adverbial fronting 2 times (7.15%) and subject operator inversion once (3.5%). On the other hand, there are only two elements of ethnograhy of communication which affect the changes in orders of the character’s utterances. Those elements are ends and act sequence elements. It is found that these two elements have three changes each based on the analysis. From these findings, it can be concluded that the shift observed in the orders of the character’s utterances occur because the outcomes and the messages of the conversation tend to change when the selected character, Master Yoda Master Yoda is involved in the dialogues.
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