Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET)
Vol 6, No 2 (2022)

An Analysis of Language Styles Used on Aaron Beverly Speech “An Unbelievable Story” in Toastmaster Public Speaking World Champion 2019

Anggi Satmaya Dhila (Bengkulu University)
Syafrizal Sabarudin (Bengkulu University)
Arasuli Arasuli (Bengkulu University)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Jun 2022

Abstract

This research aims to find out types of using language style on speech by Aaron Beverly, titled “Unbelievable Story and the possible reason why the style use dominantly. The method used in this research was descriptive quantitative research. The data were analyzed with using Martin Joos Theory (1976) to find the types of the style. The data were 70 utterances from 1 speech script. The findings showed that there were 4 styles used in the speech, namely frozen style, formal style, casual style and intimate style. The language style of the speech tended to have casual style as the most dominant style. It was possible to the speaker making an interesting light speech with the dominant casual style. The speech might be presented in fun topic and chronology where it became informal situation which was more relaxed in using language. Finally, the researcher suggests to the student to be able implement the style in presentation class or in learning public speaking. Also, the next researcher who interest to conduct research in the same study to connecting research to the next new literary ideas such as in public speaking skills in business.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEET

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) with online ISSN 2622-5867 is a journal which is published four times a year in December, March, June, and September. We accept mainly research-based articles related to English Education and Teaching. The articles must be in ...