Suprasegmental Phonology Used in Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Movie on Implying the Characters' Purpose and Emotion in General EFL Classroom

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Suprasegmental phonology; movie, character; emotion; EFL

Abstract

Suprasegmental plays important role in learning English sounds, especially pronunciation, but it is very different when they are used in some fantasy, action, and sci-fi movies. The stress and intonation sometimes are pronounced out of the types of suprasegmental theories. This present study was intended to examine and figure out the relation between stress and intonation in Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer movie in the purpose and emotion of each characters in general. It was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative analysis in a small project to 44 students at a higher institution. The research instruments used in the research are 1 subtitle of a movie trailer, and interview. It revealed that strong stress and rise intonation are used to explain about something that they want to focus, explain and show someone’s emotion such as they want something, get a help, express worried, anger, warn someone, ambition on something, to convince another, and also give someone a challenge. The result of the study also highlighted that strong form and fall intonation are used to show their emotions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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