Language styles used in Beauty and the Beast fairytale

Language is a media for communication. It is used to convey wishes and commands, to tell truths and lies, to influence our hearer, to vent our emotion, and to formulate ideas which could probably never arise if we had no language. People use language to communicate with other persons. To communicate means to transfer ideas from one person to the others. If people do not have a tool to communicate, every people s activities and interactions would be stagnant. People have and use their own style in expressing or delivering their ideas because it is related to the social aspect or artistic effects. Furthermore, style is the ability and the competence to make a sentence in a good way.

In accordance to those reasons, this research is aimed to find what are the language style that used in Beauty and the Beast fairytale based on sentence structure and also to interpret how the language style used in that fairytale.

The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative research because the researcher efforts to analyze and discuss the sentences or dialogues which perform the language style based on sentence structure. The researcher uses herself as the key instrument to collect and to analyze the data that taken from Beauty and the Beast fairytale published by Walt Disney fairytale Disney classic book series published in 1991 by Budget Books Pty. Ltd., Australia.

After analyzing the data, the researcher found seventy one data that perform in five characteristics of language style based on sentence structure. They are climax, anti-climax, parallelism, anti-thesis, and repetition. And it uses seven kinds of repetition, they are: epizeuxis repetition, tautologia repetition, anaphora repetition, epistrophe repetition, mesodiplosis repetition, epanalepsis repetition, and anadiplosis repetition. However, the most dominant language style based on sentence structure that is used in Beauty and the Beast fairytale is parallelism.

After classified the data, the researcher interpret how the language style used in the sentences or dialogues based on the sentences or dialogues context. Doe to the use of the style in the sentences or dialogues are to make the clear explanation or the clear narration of the story in the right context. In the same way, it is used to avoid the misunderstanding or interpretation of the reader because there are so many events or actions that happen in the story.

Finally, after finishing this research, the researcher hopes that this research can give contribution to the researcher herself, to the readers, and to the further researchers who conduct the same research. Furthermore, the researcher suggests to the next researchers to study more complete research, especially in the same field.