A STUDY OF STUTTERING BEHAVIOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE KING'S SPEECH

This study focuses on stuttering behavior and stuttering treatment of the main
character, Prince Albert Duke of York found in The King’s Speech movie. This study
aims to explain clearly types of stuttering behavior and stuttering treatment shown by
the main character in the movieThe King’s Speech.
This study was conducted by applying a qualitative research design since the
data are in the form of words. The data of this study are the utterances indicating
stuttering behavior of the main character in The King’s Speech. The data are collected
by using content analysis method. In analyzing data, the writer uses interactive data
analysis. This study uses the theories which are proposed by Patricia Zebrowski
(2007) and Lavid (2003) to analyze the data.
In the finding of the study, the writer found 57 data. The writer show that
there are seven types of stuttering behavior and four types of stuttering treatments
occurs in TheKing’s Speech. For stuttering behavior only 1 data which is included
into interjections, 2 data which are included into phrase repetition,3data which are
included into repetitions of individual sounds or syllable,1 datawhich is included into
prolongations of sounds, 36 data which are includedinto silent block, 3 data which are
included into monosyllabic whole-word repetition and 2 data which are included into
broken word. Then, for stuttering treatment 4 data which are included into speech
therapy, 3 data which are included into singing, 1 data which is included into auditory
masking and 1 data which is included into speaking alone. The results of this study
show that the dominant of stuttering behavior shown by Prince Albert is silent block.
Then, the dominant of stuttering treatment shown by Prince Albert is speech therapy.