LADU: Journal of Languages and Education
Vol. 2 No. 4 (2022): May-June

An analysis of the onomatopoeia in “COCO” movie

Fira Sabrina (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Winanda Aghniya Puteri (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2022

Abstract

Background:  when people watch movies, they not only enjoy the pictures and the action but also related to linguistic expression. One of them is onomatopoeia, which makes dialogue in the film becomes more interesting. Purpose: This research aims to describe kind of onomatopoeic words used in the COCO movie. Design and methods: This method of this research was a descriptive qualitative research. The data were analyzed for collecting the primary and secondary onomatopoeia. In collecting the data for the analysis the source data was taken from the movie entitled “COCO”. In collecting data, at this step, there were some steps that would be applied by the researchers: 1) Watch the movie, 2) Identify the dialogues and action which had Onomatopoeia from the movie, 3) List the Onomatopoeic words by marking and selecting the onomatopoeic words from the movie by applying note taking technique Results: this research revealed 20 onomatopoeic expressions or words and these 20 expressions were divided into 3 classifications, namely the first classification is onomatopoeic words, the second classification is onomatopoeic meaning, and the third classification is contextual meaning. Furthermore, this study exposed 9 primary onomatopoeia and 11 secondary onomatopoeia from the data. Based on the classification of onomatopoeia with the voice described, the researchers found 8 human voice data, 1 animal voice data, 11 other sounds.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ladu

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

LADU: Journal of Languages & Education provides a forum for discussion of current topics and issues in language and literacy that have a direct influence on thinking and practice in education. Articles draw important and well-communicated implications of their subject matter for one or more of the ...