The Analysis of Figurative Language Found in the Prestige Movie

JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Vol.02, No.01, 2024: June: 30-45 https://jolcc.org/index.php/jolcc/index The Analysis of Figurative Language Found in the Prestige Movie Jasir Al-Faruq1, Octa Pratama Putra2, 1, 2 Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika, Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Komunikasi dan Bahasa, Depok, Indonesia E-mail :, Submission Track: Received: 27-02-2024, Final Revision: 12-03-2024, Available Online: 01-06-2024 Copyright © 2024 Authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. ABSTRACT This research analyzes the figurative language in the The Prestige movie. In the movie, the use of language is essential as the tool to communicate with each other. About language, the figurative language is one kind of language variety. Figurative language greatly improves the way humans communicate meaning. The main goal of this study was to analyze and discover the figurative language utilized in the film of The Prestige. The purpose of this study is to identify the kinds of figurative language that are used in this film. It also seeks to identify this film's most often used metaphorical language. This study's author employs a qualitative methodology, which falls under the library research category. The dialogue from the film The Prestige serves as the research's data source. As a result, there are seven categories of figurative language identified by the study's findings. Seven kinds of figurative languages are found from the total of selected either monologue or dialogue that contains a figurative language. The figurative language found are: Personification (6 data), hyperbole (9 data), metaphor (5 data), simile (2 data), and paradox (1 data). Based on the data that was gathered and examined, it was stated that, hyperbole showed up in nine data points. The hyperbole of figurative language used is the most common form in this movie. Keywords: Figurative Language, Hyperbole, The Prestige 30 JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Vol.02, No.01, 2024: June: 30-45 https://jolcc.org/index.php/jolcc/index INTRODUCTION Language is a tool of communication that human use to interact and communicate with another human. With language, a human can do his or her daily tasks that require communication and cooperation. As stated by (Lahay et al., 2023) language is the media used for communicating and exchanging ideas with each other. On the other hand, the language cannot be separated from people since it is essential in all aspects of human's life, including technology, science, economics, education, politics, and art. In the field of art, the dialogue in the movie is one example of a language use. A movie offers audio and context, moving images, and a screen that appears alive. This is supported by (Shakhnoza, 2023), according to prior argumentation, a movie is a method of communication that tells tales or provides information utilizing sound or moving pictures (enable people to learn). Based on these statements as mentioned above from the expert, it concludes that, a movie not only offers the background information, but also the sound or text that is required to complement the moving picture's context. Movie is an entertaining thing. Many people enjoy watching movie, it could be any movie genres; including horror, animation, thriller, and many other of genre. People are often drawn to a movie for many purposes; such as: dramatizing the storyline, looking at the visual effect, finding out the hidden message, and understanding a language. For a particular movie, the language used is commonly figurative. The figurative language is defined as the non-literal type of language that has meaning its literal meaning. It was not meant to be taken literally as it could cause misinterpretation and misunderstanding. As being expressed by (Kreuz & Roberts, 2022) in (Jr. et al., 1993), he states that, figurative language are forms of language used by authors or speakers delivering something beyond the literal meaning. Then, (Moss & Fussell, 2021) argued that, using figurative language does not only need an interpretation but also familiarity between the speaker and listener or between author and reader. So, without proper context or situation, some sentence containing figurative language might not work. Plenty of previous papers or publications are similar or also focusing on figurative language found in literature. The title of those research are "An Analysis of Figurative 31 JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Vol.02, No.01, 2024: June: 30-45 https://jolcc.org/index.php/jolcc/index Language Found on Moana Movie" by (Siagian & Suharyanto, 2022), "An Analysis of Figurative Language in Aladdin Movie" by (Febriyanti, 2022), "An Analysis of Figurative Language in Aladdin Movie" by (Sriwedani et al., 2022), "An Analysis of Figurative Language Used in Twilight Movie" by (Mukti & Nugraha, 2022) and "An analysis Figure of Speech in the Frozen Disney Movie" by (Cahyaningrum, 2022), the researcher uses these studies as a reference for this study because of the similarity in the research and the media that they used which is movie. Thus, from the consideration and selection of the chosen movie, the researcher would like to analyze the movie The Prestige by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale starred in Christopher Nolan's film, which was released in 2006. The researcher would like to keep focusing on the dialogue or monologue shown in this movie and understand the story first, then it is about to analyze the figurative language by the character. RESEARCH METHOD The researcher applies qualitative method for this study. The researcher independently study and analyze the data that has been collected. The data source is The Prestige movie, and the primary data is the dialogue inside the movie, which contains figurative language. The secondary sources are journals with relevant or related studies to this research. The research was conducted in a few steps: First, is to collect the movie from the internet and watch it. Secondly, the researcher then listens closely to the dialogues and identifies each dialogue that contains figurative language, and take notes of each data that has been collected. Then the researcher classifies and organizes each data found to its respective figurative language. The researcher then interprets and analyzes each dialogue containing figurative language to find its meaning. Lastly, the researcher then finds out which type of figurative language appears most according to the data that has been classified and analyzed. 32 JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Vol.02, No.01, 2024: June: 30-45 https://jolcc.org/index.php/jolcc/index DISCUSSION There are many types of figurative language. According to Abrams (1999) which is taken from (Simamora & Priyono, 2022), it is stated that, the figurative language consists of: Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, paradox, irony, Personification (...truncated)