THE CONTENT AND FUNCTION WORDS ANALYSIS OF CLIMAX SCENE OF THE MOVIE ALADDIN 2019

Abstract

Language is one of the ways humans communicate. Language comes from a word then forms a sentence then finally becomes a paragraph. To understand another language, we can start with the first step, which is to study language within linguistics. The study of language is called linguistic. The meaning of linguistics is a science of language or science that makes language the object of its study or scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be divided into several objects: Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and the last one is Semantics. In different objects, we will study linguistics in steps. In this research, the linguistic object that will be used is morphology. Morphology is a branch of linguistics that examines the intricacies of the form and formation of the words to the various functions of changing the form of the word to get different meanings. Morphology has several things that can be studied, one of them being content and function words. Content word is a word with lexical meaning, it means that we can find the meaning in the dictionary. In another hand, a function word is a word with grammatical meaning, it means that we can find the meaning in relation to another word or other words in a sentence. The type of content words is a noun, adverb, adjective, and verb. Meanwhile, the type of function words is a pronoun, conjunction, determiner, preposition, and modal verb. This research used a qualitative approach and coding technique. The process includes collecting data through online observation, employing coding techniques for data analysis, doing a synthesis in the result and discussion, drawing a conclusion, and providing suggestions. The synthesis in the results and discussion relates the findings of the analysis of content words and function words in this movie. The results of this study are expected to be able to provide a sufficient description of the content and function words of analysis in the movie Aladdin 2019. This journal contains the meaning of language, linguistics, and the analysis of content and function words of the climax scene from the Aladdin 2019 Movie. Aladdin 2019 is an American musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie, who co-wrote this screenplay with John August. The movie is an adaptation of an animation movie with the same title “Aladdin”. This movie gets $1 billion di all the world and makes this movie one of the five bestseller movies in 2019. Based on the result the researchers found 62% from the climax scene of the movie Aladdin 2019 are content words and 38% from the climax scene of the movie Aladdin 2019 are function words. The data collected are 100 data for the research. On content words, it was found that 26% Nouns, 14% Verbs, 14% Adjective, and 8% Adverb. On function words, it was found that 6% Pronouns, 6% Prepositions, 4% Conjunctions, 8% Modal verb, and 14% Determiner.