Title: AN ANALYSIS ON THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE USE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH FOUNDIN NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE” BY J.K ROWLING
Abstract: Language exists in order that people can communicate to each other. In its development,
language can change. The changes of language can create language variations. One aspect that
makes language variations is geographical aspect. Different area can create the variation of
language. It happens in English. The researcher takes American and British English. This
research is to get the differences of language used between American and British English which
are represented in novel “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.”
This research was intended to find verb differences, tenses differences, and language expression
differences in this novel. The design of this research was descriptive research. Moreover, this
research used qualitative research. Besides, this research employed documentary analysis.
There are fourty nine verb differences, six tense differences, and one hundreds and one language
expression differences found in this novel. In verb differences, there are four verb differences in
transitive, six verb differences in intransitive, twenty six verb differences in phrasal verb, three
verb differences between intransitive and phrasal verb, five verb differences between transitive
and phrasal verb, one verb difference in modal auxiliary, three verb differences in auxiliary be,
one verb difference between modal and auxiliary and auxiliary be. In tenses differences, one
sentence in American version uses present tense while British version uses simple past tense,
seven sentences in American version uses simple past tense while British version uses past
perfect tense, one sentence in American version uses past perfect tense while British version uses
continuous tense, two sentences in American version uses present tense while British version
uses continuous tense, one sentence in American version uses continuous tense while British
version uses past tense, one sentence in American version uses present modal while British
version uses past modal. In language expression differences, There are language expression
differences in comparative, in singular and plural, in conjunction, in noun, in noun phrase, in
clauses, in pronoun, in preposition, in adjective, in possessive form, in adverb, in sentence, and
the other language expression differences in which there are the existence of some words in
some sentences while the others are not in both American and British version. All the differences
are similar in the meaning.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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