Language functions used by different genders in Love, Rosie movie

This study focuses on finding out the language functions used by Rosie and Alex as the main male and female characters in “Love, Rosie” movie. Moreover, this study aims to determine the language function used by Alex and Rosie, the situational context of the use of language function, and the last is the different language functions used by Alex and Rosie. In order to achieve the aims of this study, the study needs to apply a descriptive qualitative approach. The data of this study is the utterances from Alex and Rosie, which contain language functions. The data was collected by identifying the language functions used by Alex and Rosie’s utterances. The data is processed through some steps of analyzing data. They are classifying, calculating the average of each type of language function, and drawing the conclusion.
As a result, this study shows that Alex and Rosie used seven of eight language functions. This study also found the context of the use of language function which are the components of interaction. They are setting and scene, participants, action sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms of interactions, and genre, which appeared in Alex’s utterances and Rosie’s utterances. The differences show Alex used expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, phatic, heuristic, and commissive. In contrast, Rosie used expressive, referential, metalinguistic, poetic, phatic, and commissive. The expressive language function is the highest language function used by Rosie, whereas Alex uses the most language function in the directive.