The Dominant Effect of Colonialism on Language in English Vinglish Movie Script

Siti Nurhalimah, Siti (1211503134) (2015) The Dominant Effect of Colonialism on Language in English Vinglish Movie Script. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

The researcher discussed the effect of colonialism into language in English Vinglish’s movie script. The focused of this research are 1) to find out colonial effect based on abrogation and 2) to find out colonial effect based on appropriation. To find out the effect, this research used post-colonial theory to find the ideology of colonial that appears in the text. The Data were taken from English Vinglish’s movie script and those data analyzed by post-colonial critic method. In analyzed the data, the researcher used post-colonial theory to answer research questions. First question, the data arrange and put it separately as abrogation in colonial effect. Second question, the researcher use same method but the data arrange and put it separately as appropriation in colonial effect. Then, the researcher describes the data as the major theme and interprets the data used relevant theory to know the data as the effect of post-colonialism. The result of this analysis was show the effect of language in colonialism in the text. The researcher found two specific effects in this text such as abrogation and appropriation. Abrogation was rejected Standard English then to show the language which was abrogated, the script writer engrafted funny language but it’s a satire which wants showed that Standard English made colonized bear the burden. While in appropriation, language is a tool to separate or not to follow colonizer’s view. Appropriation emerged language as new usage like placed the words “dirty” and “clean” to represent “unwell” and “well”. Besides, in code switching, the script writer emerged the characters that used mixing language. The sameness between abrogation and appropriation maintained Hindi language as identity and for rejected Standard English as elite language.

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