A sociolinguistic study on codes of language used by Mr. Bean On Film: Bean-the Ultimate Disaster Movie

ABSTRACT

Language is one of the human creations to interact and make close relationship. By language people communicate to each other. Human beings use codes to communicate. 'I hey use verbal and non verbal language such as gestures, eye gazes, facial twitches etc. People do not speak only in verbal language but also non verbal consciously or unconsciously. It can be proved when we speak in verbal language automatically it will be followed by non verbal language. Our hand for example will point something when we say, “that’s one”. Or we will nod our head when we say, “yes sir”. In other words, communication is the basic need of human beings in their interaction.

The researcher is interested in analyzing the codes of language used by Mr. Bean on both verbal and non verbal. Language codes are main things that people notice in communication. It is very important to conduct this research because it relates to imderstand communication.

In conducting this research, the researcher uses qualitative method. The data are taken from 30 codes made by Mr. Bean on film “Bean-the Ultimate Disaster Movie”. The researcher finds verbal codes on data 8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20 and 21 and finds non verbal codes in all data. The non verbal code are Kinesics of emblem, Kinesics of illustrator, Kinesics of effect display, Kinesics of regulator, eye gazes, touching, and paralanguage. The researcher does not find adaptory codes in this research.

This research is aimed at finding what kinds of codes used by Mr. Bean and how he produces the codes. The result of this research shows that Mr. Bean’s language codes in film “Bean-the ultimate disaster movie are mostly non verbal codes. The influence of this conclusion is caused by Mr. Bean’s character in every action he does in the film ،،Bean-the ultimate disaster movie”. All 30 data which are presented show that gestures dominate Mr. Bean’s language codes. Mr. Bean just produces seven verbal codes and mostly consists of one word.

From this research, the researcher hopes this thesis can give contribution to the researcher himself and to the readers or to the further researchers who conduct the same research. Hopefully, the next researchers who conduct the same research could complete this research not only in understanding the kind and the way producing the codes, but also the impact of codes in communication process.