THE LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY JAMILAH IN RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH’S TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT ME NOVEL

Diani Amalia Putri, NIM.: 18101050029 (2023) THE LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY JAMILAH IN RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH’S TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT ME NOVEL. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA.

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Abstract

A small part of a language like a word has a significant function. In literary work like a novel, the author utilizes a word to achieve an efficient and a unique writing style. It denotes that a word does not just define things, but it is also a way to accomplish another element like the aesthetic effect. Hence, it is reasonable for the researcher to do a research on the Ten Things I Hate About Me novel's lexical features. This research objective is the Ten Things I Hate About Me’s main character’s selected utterances. Moreover, The researcher’s main focuses are to identify the author’s lexical choices in Jamilah Towfeek’s selected utterances, and to analyze the author’s aesthetic achievement through the language. This researcher employs the descriptive qualitative research method, and the research data are from Jamilah Towfeek’s selected utterances collected using note-taking technique. The result of the research shows that there are 160 of Jamilah’s utterances that apply five sub-majors of lexical categories, which in words there are 3762 lexical units. The first is the noun category with the result findings as follows, 7.78% abstract, 2.6% concrete, 4.8% proper, and 0.2% collective. Next, in the adjectives category, there are 5.8% attributive, 1% restrictive, 0.1% non-restrictive, 1.08% gradable, 1.06% non-gradable, and 3.4% predicative. Subsequently, the verbs category’s outcomes are 6.2% stative, 4.8% dynamic, 9% transitive, 3.8% intransitive, 11.1% linking, 0.5% factive, and 0.4% non-factive. Then, the adverbs category is divided into two main types. The semantics functions of adverbs’ result findings are 5.2% manner, 0.5% place, 0.9% direction, 0.8% time, 0.1% duration, 0.5% frequency, and 1.2% degree. Meanwhile, the sentence adverbs’ outcomes indicate that there are 0.5% adjunct, 0.10% subjunct, 0.18% disjunct, and 4.5% conjunct. Lastly, the general category in which creates overlapping findings, shows that the results are 85.8% simple, 14.2% complex, 4.1% formal, 95.9% colloquial, 1.8% descriptive, 3.5% evaluative, 0.4% general, 21.7% specific, 1.03% emotive, 0.3% collocation, 0.21% register, 0.05% specialized, 14.2% morphological category, and 0% semantics fields of words. It concludes that the author’s lexical choices play a crucial role in Jamilah’s utterances. Furthermore, the variety of lexical choices utilized indicates the author’s aesthetic achievement through language, which is seen on how the author performs the aesthetic functions in Jamilah’s utterances. The aesthetic functions used are urbane, curt, exuberant, florid, lucid, plain, and vigorous.

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