Linguistic Compression in Saving Private Ryan Film in Indonesian Subtitle

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the linguistic compression in the film Saving Private Ryan in the Indonesian subtitle on the speech acts. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The source of data is the conversation among characters in the film Saving Private Ryan. Meanwhile, data of this research are the utterances or sentences in the subtitle of the movie which involve two different languages; English (Source Language) and Indonesian (Target Language). The finding shows that there are 22 data of illocutionary speech acts which are translated by using linguistic compression technique and categorized into three types of illocutionary acts. The quality of the subtitles translated by that technique is very good because it translated accurately, the meaning or intention in words can be accurately delivered into the target language.

Illocutionary Acts and Contextual Utterances in the Movie Raya and the Last Dragon

“…An easy way to learn English can be through songs, news, poems, novels, podcasts, movies, etc. Since the movie shows a real example of society, the researcher will use the movie as the subject of the research (Istiqomah et al, 2020). In this study, the movie Raya and the Last Dragon is utilized because the background of this film is close to Indonesian culture, so it is more advantageous for EFL learners, especially in Indonesia, to become more familiar.…”