MODALIZATION AND MODULATION EXPRESSIONS OF THE ENGLISH-BAHASA INDONESIA CONFESSION OF A SHOPAHOLIC MOVIE TEXTS

摘要

The objectives of this study are to describe: (1) the realization of modalization and modulation expressions in the English and the Bahasa Indoniesia movie texts of Confession of a Shopaholic, (2) motivating factors that make the occurrence of the modalization and modulation in the English and the Bahasa Indonesia movie text are different. udThis research applied a descriptive qualitative approach. The data in this research were in the forms of English and Bahasa Indonesia movie texts of Confession of a Shopaholic which contains modalization and modulation expressions. The source of the data itself was the movie Confession of a Shopaholic which is distributed by Touchstone Pictures in 2009. The data were collected by watching the movie, writing the English and the Bahasa Indonesia movie text and analyzing the modalization and modulation expressions in both movie texts using the data sheet. The analysis of the data was divided into probability, usuality, inclianation and obligation. udThe findings show that modulation expressions in both the English and the Bahasa Indonesia movie texts are greater than modalization expressions. Moreover, obligation has the greatest occurrence in both texts. This implies that the Bahasa Indonesia movie text has a high equivalence with the English movie text. Because the obligation in the both texts has the greatest occurrence, it means that most characters are likely give order, advices and suggestions. It is also found that there are four motivating factors that make the occurrence of the modalization and modulation expressions in the English and the Bahasa Indonesia are different. These factors are (1) there are modalization and modulation expressions which are from non-modality words, (2) there modalization and modulation expressions which are categorized in the different category, (3) there are modalization and modulation expressions which are categorized in the different degree of modality, and (4) the English and the Bahasa Indonesia movie texts are derived from different form.