Fitria Awaliyah , 2201414082 (2019) FORM AND MEANING OF THE IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS FOUND IN THE MOVIE SCRIPT OF DIARY OF A WIMPY KID. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Learning idioms is important but their meanings are elusive and cannot be translated literally. It makes sense that most of foreign students, especially Indonesian students, surely deal with difficulties in learning English idioms. A movie can be a resource of idioms since it has abundance of idiom utterances. Learning trough movie also helps students to understand idioms in a right context. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a movie intended for teenagers contains everyday language conversations. Based on those reasons, this topic was chosen. This study aimed at finding (1) form categories of idiomatic expressions in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie script; and, (2) the meaning types of each idiomatic expression in Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie script. According to the aim of this study, this study employed a descriptive-qualitative method. This study tried to figure out the research questions by conducting some procedures such as collecting the data, categorizing the data, and concluding the findings. The objects of the study were all the idiomatic expressions found in Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie script adapted from a novel with the same title Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. The data were the phrases or words found in the movie script. The data obtained were categorized into meaning types and form categories. The form category was according to the formation of the idiom that referred to Adelnia & Dastjerdi’s theory (2011). The meaning type was based on the meaning of the idiom that used Fernando’s theory (1996). The total of the idioms found in the movie script was 132 idioms. In form categories, there were 22 colloquialisms (17%), 9 proverbs (7%), 22 slangs (17%), 2 allusions (1%), and 77 phrasal verbs (58%). In meaning types, there were 83 pure idioms (63%) and 49 semi idioms (37%). Based on the five form categories, the most frequently used idiom was phrasal verb, followed by colloquialism, slang, proverb, and allusion. Meanwhile, in meaning idiom types, the most dominant idiom was pure idiom followed by semi idiom.

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