The Analysis of Casual and Consultative Style Used by Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side Film

Abstract

This research focuses on the casual and consultative style used by Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side film. It aims to find out what the language styles and what the characteristics of the language style used by Leigh Anne Tuohy. After analyzing the data, the researcher finds that Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side film used casual and consultative style. Casual style was used when the speaker talks to the members of family or close friend, the speaker uses colloquial or slang word, the sentence was in sentence fragment form, and the speaker used imperative sentence. In addition, the conversation happened in casual situation. While consultative style was used when the speaker talked to the stranger, the sentence was in complete structure, and what the speaker talking about was clear. Moreover, the addressee participated continuously.

Key terms: Casual and Consultative Style, Leigh Anne Tuohy, The Blind Side Film.