THE SPEECH OF BOY WILLIAM IN PODCAST INTERVIEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLES AND FUNCTIONS

ABSTRACT

The language is used as a means of communicating thoughts, feelings, and
ideas. In expressing or delivering ideas in both forms, spoken and written language,
people have their own style because it is related to the social contexts. This research
on speech styles and functions used qualitative descriptive method in which the
data were collected from the scripts of Boy William’s utterances on his podcast
interviews video. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out the types of
language styles used by Boy William on his podcast interviews and (2) to analyze
the functions on Boy William’s utterances on his podcast interviews. The scope of
this research was a study of language styles and functions found in podcast
interviews video of Boy William’s YouTube channel. From the interviews, 166
utterances containing language styles and functions were collected. Then, these
utterances were classified and analyzed by using Martin Joos’ (1976) theory about
language styles also supported by Holmes’ (2013) theory to classify the language
functions of the utterances. The research found there were four types of language
styles used in Boy William’s utterances namely formal, consultative, casual, and
intimate style. Besides, there were four types of language functions of his
utterances namely expressive, directive, referential, and phatic function. The style
that was not found was the frozen style. Meanwhile, the function that was not found
were metalinguistic, poetic, heuristic, and commissive function.

Keywords: Language Styles, Language Functions, Podcast Interview