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ACCOMODATION STRATEGY IN BUYING AND SELLING CONVERSATIONS AT GANG BARU TRADITIONAL MARKET CHINATOWN SEMARANG Kepirianto, Catur; Poedjosoedarmo, Soepomo; Suhandano, Suhandano
HUMANIKA Vol 26, No 2 (2019): Desember
Publisher : Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (483.265 KB) | DOI: 10.14710/humanika.v26i2.24791

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Language is a means of communication to convey idea, mind, and feeling to the other. The research problems are the accommodation in buying and selling conversation between buyers and sellers in Gang Baru traditional market Chinatown Semarang and the accommodation direction. This research applies descriptive qualitative method. To collect data, it applies observation, tapping, and recording. Then the data are analyzed descriptively based on the theory of accommodation. The findings show that there is an accomodation in the conversation between buyers and sellers in traditional market Chinatown Semarang. The direction of accommodation are both convergence and divergence. In the convergence, the speakers adapt positively, otherwise in the divergence, the speakers adapt negatively. The interpersonal interaction provides the speech in a conversation. Each talk or speech has its own function and becomes the component to arrange the comprehensive relation in a conversation. There are functions on convergence and divergence accommodation. The convergence accommodation has functions to maintain the symmetric speech, to reactualize the solidarity, to keep cooperative speech, to reduce interpersonal difference, to consider the other view, and to provide adaptation. While the divergence accommodation has functions to bargain, to retain the argument, to keep personal speech, to maintain the identity, to keep personal identity, to maintain ethnic identity, to retain the distance, to keep asymmetric speech, and to maintain idiosyncratic speech. It is implied that the speech accommodation in Gang Baru traditional market Chinatown Semarang represents such markers as solidarity, cooperative, symmetric, asymmetric, tolerant, identity, and ethnic markers.
REQUESTIVE UTTERANCES IN SPOKEN JAVANESE OF TEGAL Mualimin, Mualimin; Marsono, Marsono; Suhandano, Suhandano
HUMANIKA Vol 26, No 1 (2019): Januari-Juni
Publisher : Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University

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Studying  language use as a part of the culture has been carried out for many years in many parts of the world, including in Indonesia. Indonesia which has various cultures has hundreds of local languages in which one of them is Javanese spoken in Tegal. This study is aimed at exploring how the Javanese dialect spoken in Tegal is used in drama radio programs on Pertiwi Radio of Slawi, the capital city of Tegal Regency.The data of the research are in the forms of uttrerances spoken by the characters of the drama containing requestive speech acts using a sociopragmatic approach. The findings of the research show that requestive utterances found in the drama are expressed both directly and indirectly. The direct requestive speech acts are mostly conveyed in utterances with imperative mood,  while indirect requestive ones are in the forms of declarative and interrogative utterances. The choice of utterances is influenced by context of social factors where the language is used and is related to request strategy.