AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLES FOUND IN PODCASTS INTERVIEW

Abstract

The language is used as a means of communicating thoughts, feelings, and ideas. In expressing or delivering ideas in both forms, spoken and written language, people have their own style because it is related to the social contexts. This research on speech styles and functions used qualitative descriptive method in which the data were collected from the scripts of Boy William’s utterances on his podcast interviews video. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out the types of language styles used by Boy William on his podcast interviews and (2) to analyze the functions on Boy William’s utterances on his podcast interviews. The scope of this research was a study of  language styles and functions found in podcast interviews video of Boy William’s YouTube channel. From the interviews, 166 utterances containing language styles and functions were collected. Then, these utterances were classified and analyzed by using Martin Joos’ (1976) theory about language styles also supported by Holmes’ (2013) theory to classify the language functions of the utterances. The research found there were four types of language styles used in Boy William’s utterances namely formal, consultative, casual, and intimate style. Besides, there were four types of language functions of his utterances namely expressive, directive, referential, and phatic function. The style that was not found was the frozen style. Meanwhile, the function that was not found were metalinguistic, poetic, heuristic, and commissive function.

Keywords: Language Styles, Language Functions, Podcast Interview