Abstract:
Language style can be defined as the choice of words used by a specific
group of people when speak in a place and in one condition. It is necessary for
people to express their thought, ideas and opinions, thus, people use style depend
on with whom they speak and where they are speaking to. By understanding the
language style, we also can help students in improving four English skills
especially in listening and speaking. This research used qualitative descriptive
method in which the data were collected from the scripts of Atta’s videos. The
objectives of this study are (1) to describe the types of language styles that Atta
Halilintar used in his video and (2) to find out the the ungrammatical sentences
made by Atta Halilintar in his video. The scope of this research is a study of
language variation, especially in language style found in YouTube video of Atta
Halilintar. To be the data for this study taken from Atta’s video entitled “Studio
Podcast Manusia 5t Bikin Atta Kagum Sama Bang Sandy” (July 5th, 2020). From
this video found 965 utterances containing language styles. Then, these utterances
classified and analyzed by using Martin Joos’ theory about language styles. The
finding of this research is there are four types of language styles used in his video
namely Frozen, Formal, Consultative, and Casual styles. The most common type
of language styles that Atta Halilintar used is Consultative in which there are 24
utterances. He did not use intimate style since he was having a talk with Sandiaga
Uno, a respected person in Indonesia. The last, the most dominant grammatical
error made by Atta Halilintar was error of substitution for word usage in which
there are 42 errors then followed by error of omission and the least error is
addition.
