Register Analysis on High School Students’ Language in Japanese Manga and Anime

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10.2991/assehr.k.211119.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Highschool students’ language; language variety; manga; register

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the use of registers in the language of high school students in Japan based on three elements of situation, namely: field; tenor; and mode. This descriptive qualitative study used daily conversations of high school students taken from the first 10 episodes of anime and manga titled Haikyuu season 1 as the research data. This study used Halliday’s (1989) theory about register as a framework. The results showed that there were 35 data indicating registers. The use of registers which were influenced by the field factor showed the speaker’s feelings and indicated the place while the use of registers against the interlocutors were found in tenor, such as in situations of apologizing, thanking, or calling the other person. Later, registers that depended on the way of which the speakers speak were found in mode. These findings demonstrated that the use of registers in the community of high school students in Japan were strongly influenced by who they were talking to. However, the use of registers was not limited to members of the community.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Andriani Anjasuma Putri
AU  - Nuria Haristiani
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/21
TI  - Register Analysis on High School Students’ Language in Japanese Manga and Anime
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 104
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.017
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.017
ID  - Putri2021
ER  -