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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelLanguage is very important in human being?s life in order to communicate
with others. People speak in different varieties since no speaker speaks a single
variety. In fact, people can use different language varieties; either it is standard or
non-standard English language, to communicate. This situation can also be
observed in Honey Daniels? life in Honey movie. As information, Honey Daniels
comes from a mixed race family. Her father is a black man and her mother is a
white woman. Just because of that, the writer wants to know the frequency of
standard and non-standard English language variety that used by Honey Daniels
when she spoke to other ethnicities. Furthermore, the writer also wants to know
about the types of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features used by
Honey Daniels in Honey movie. In analyzing the data, the writer used the theory
of language varieties, theory of standard and non-standard English language, both
theories are from Holmes (1992). Also, the writer used the theory of African
American Vernacular English by Trudgill (1983) and Labov (1972) in order to see
what types of African American Vernacular English that Honey Daniels used
when she spoke to her addressees. From the analysis, the writer found out that
Honey Daniels used more standard English varieties when she spoke to people
who came from black ethnicity. However, the writer also found out that the
percentage of Honey Daniels? speech of non-standard English when she spoke to
black ethnicity was not too significant compared to when she spoke to white
ethnicity. Moreover, the result showed that the types of African American
Vernacular English used by Honey Daniels when she spoke to white and black
ethnicity were almost the same, that is, the use of `n? as opposed to ng, the use of
apostrophe [`], the use of slang words, the use of gonna, the use of wanna, and
altered syntax in questions. However, no -s ending in the present tense third
person singular and aspectual system features did not occur in Honey Daniels?
utterances when she spoke to black ethnicity. It was because Honey Daniels came
from a mixed race family; her father is a black man and her mother is a white
woman. Even though Honey Daniels spoke African American Vernacular English
(AAVE) features, not all the AAVE features occurred in Honey Daniels? speech.