Maulidah, Fina (2012) Dementia’s speech difficulties in the main character of Savages movie. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, the issue on dementia is getting more popular in psycholinguistics. Dementia is significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity. The criteria for the diagnosis of dementia include impairment of language. Furthermore, there is a movie which reflects life of an old man suffering dementia entitled Savages. Yet, this study focused on how the utterances are produced by the demensic character.
This study uses descriptive qualitative method since it described the phenomenon on how the speech difficulties of the demensic character. It can be in the form of sentences, phrases, or words produced by the demensic character in the Savages movie. The analysis is done through Van Riper’s (2003) theory of speech difficulties.
The finding shows that Mr. Savage produced four types of speech difficulties based on Van Riper’s theory; they are rhythm disorder which is characterized by flat and high rhythm, symbolization disorder, phonation disorder which is characterized by marked foreign accent and articulatory disturbance which is characterized by omitting the word in some data. In addition, in the Savages movie, Mr. Savage produced all of the types of speech difficulties.
In short, based on the finding, the demensic character produced all kind of speech difficulties. Therefore, this study recommended that the next researchers, firstly, to focus on discussing the types of speech difficulties to get the various finding, such as rhythm disorder, phonetic disorder, articulatory disturbance, or symbolization disorder. This is because the result of the finding shows the general analysis on all of the types of speech difficulties. Secondly, the next researchers suggested analyzing the utterances produced by demensic person from the real daily life video. Because, it may get the natural data and it be able to found in the video from www.youtube.com or other website.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Indah, Rohmani Nur | ||||||
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Keywords: | dementia; speech difficulties; and Van Riper’s theory | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Nada Auliya Sarasawitri | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2023 11:02 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2023 11:02 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/48469 |
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