Institusion
Universitas Darma Persada
Author
Alifia Omila, Putri
Subject
808 Rhetoricand Collections of Literary/Retorik, Retorika dan Kumpulan Karya Sastra
Datestamp
2021-11-18 06:31:37
Abstract :
Speech style is a variation of speech which is used when people
communicate with other people. The purpose of this study is to describe and find
the type and dominant speech style which are used by Michelle Obama in ?Jimmy
Kimmel? talk show. According to Joos (1967), speech style is the forms of the
language which the speaker uses and it depends on the degree of formality. He
identified this style into five styles. Those are frozen style, formal style,
consultative style, casual style, and intimate style. Descriptive qualitative method
is selected to analyzed the data. The theories that were applied in this study are
Joos theory (1967), which concerns about speech style. The writer hopes that this
research will help the reader to get a better understanding about speech style.