ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLE IN NOVEL DIALOGUE: THE MAZE RUNNER

Language style can be found in any form such as daily conversation, magazine, newspaper, short story, novel, etc. may refer to the writing used by author or writer way technique chosen upon sentence structure, word choice, and tone. This study took novel entitled The Maze Runner source of data. objective conducting this was analyze language styles dialogue novel. There were 260 pages total. data collection limited only from page 1 100. design descriptive qualitative. collected reading analyzed types style, tabulated obtained steps identified, listed, classified counted percentage, dominant styles, described findings, displayed table. 126 dialogues which analyzed. findings showed that there 4 dialogue. They colloquial, casual, slang, consultative style. percentage colloquial with 55 44%, casual 37 29.36%, slang 27 21.42%, 7 5.5%. From it obvious most