Language styles used in Kevin Rudd’s Political speeches thesis

ABSTRACT

Language is one of important thing in daily life. It is a media for communication. It is used to convey the wishes, command or ideas, express the truth and lies, also influence to the hearer and express other ideas in our mind. In the process of communication with other person, use of language styles is a good attitude. It can bring messages which will be delivered by the participants. People have their own style in expressing their ideas because it is related to the social aspect or artistic effects. Moreover, style is competence and it has an ability to make a good way in delivering messages.

According to the reasons above, the writer purposes to find what are the language styles used by Kevin Rudd‘s political speeches and also how the language style used by Kevin Rudd’s political speeches.

In this study, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method because the writer tries to analyze and discuss the sentences or utterances which perform the language styles based on the language style’s level. The writer uses her self as the key instrument to collect and analyze the data that taken from Kevin Rudd’s political speeches in 2008-2009.

After analyzing the data of this study, the writer found twenty data which perform in three characteristics of language styles based on language style’s level such as formal styles, informal style’s, and colloquial styles. However, the most dominant language styles are used by Kevin Rudd’s political speeches is informal styles.

After classifying the data, the writer interprets how the language styles used in speeches based on speech context. Therefore, the use of style in speech is to make a good speaking when delivering messages to the listeners and it can influence the listeners.

Finally, the writer hopes that this study can give contribution to researcher to herself. To the readers and researchers who conduct the same research. In addition, the writer hopes that the next researcher can get more complex research in the same area.