Speech styles used by the main character in Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard

This study analyses speech styles used by the main character in Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. Speech style is the manner to distinguish speech based on the situation. The important thing is somebody has to consider the situation before say something. Surely, it will avoid the speaker from the difficult situation during speech. While, The Cherry Orchard is reflecting Madame Ranevskaya’s character. It tells about the depression of Madame Ranvskaya because her husband and her son died in a residence. Then, she is has to pay back a lot of debt that ever borrowed by her husband, but she has bad habit that accustomed to luxury living. So, this condition makes the writer curious to know how Madame Ranvskaya speech is. This explanation contains two research problems. They are the speech style is used by the main character in Anton Chekov’s The cherry Orchard and the social factors which influences the main character uses the style. This study applies Joos’s theory. Relate to the problems, this study used qualitative approach. The result of this study explains that the main character has never used frozen style and formal style. Mostly, the main character in this drama uses consultative style, casual style and intimate style. It is because of the situation. Besides, the social factors that influence the main character uses those three styles. They include the setting is happened, the participants who are communicated, the ends or purposes of the speech, the act sequence of the story, the key of the speech, the instruments of the speech, the norm and the genre of the speech.