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This study aims to reveal (1) the use of Tolaki community language in Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi Province-Indonesia, (2) the attitude of language speakers of the Tolaki community towards Tolaki language and foreign languages, (3) the language choice for the Tolaki community in Kendari City, and (4) the influence of the language contact of the...
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... the data, the average family in Kendary generally uses Indonesian language, followed by Tolaki Language. The public transportation sector in Table 10 is obtained by 25.16% using Tolaki language, 69.25% Indonesian language, 5.12% Mixed Languages, and 0.47% others. This data shows that the people on public transportation at Kendari generally uses Indonesian language. ...Citations
... English is used all around the world by using speakers of different languages; therefore, its functions a lingua franca (Rahman, 2018). In different phrases, it is used as a general approach of conversation between humans from specific nations all over the world (Sain et al., 2020;. It is utilized in several contexts, for instance; in education, enterprise, amusement, and a lot of others. ...
The study was about Investigating ‘sit’ subtype of Rest in English and Selayar language. The objectives of the research were to investigate the Rest verbs in English and Selayar language according to sit subtype based on Dixon’s theory and to identify the differences and the similarities between English and Selayar Language based on the semantic and the grammatical construction. The data about sit subtype in English was collected by using Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and the data from Selayar language was collected by interviewing the people who use Selayar language and observation. The qualitative descriptive analysis was used to investigate the data. The study reveals that some rest verbs belong to the sit subtype. They exist; Kneel, crouch, squat, lean, hang down, float, and assemble are all forms of sitting. Furthermore, in the Selayar language shows some words that refers to sit subtype of rest. They are; toolong, akkedeng, doko’-doko’, toolong kabetaang, tingro-tingro, deporo’, tolong jaha, akkalantu’, A’lanto, A’bingkojeng, Ammenteng, a’se’re, a’rupa, and assendere’. The differences between English and Selayar language that is in Selayar language some verbs using prefix a_. it can be seen in this research. There are some words that start with prefix a_. while in the sentence structure, they use the same grammatical construction between English and Selayar Language.
... Levinson (2004:121) noted that the greeting system in any form: pronoun, title, kinship term, nickname and social honor is guided by social deictic contrast made by an alternative form. Therefore, the relationship between conversation participants can often be encoded in language through the use of various terms which can reflect social status of the interlocutor such as Mr., Mrs., and Dr. Forms of greeting used are very varied in different cultures (Sain, et al., 2020). For example, according to politeness theory, honorific conveys politeness. ...
The general public claims that there are socially agreed rules of honor and that the use of honorary titles is a matter of complying with those rules, and researchers often claim this too. This research aims to identify the kinds of the honorifics used by English and Buginese Bone language, and to analyze the use of the honorific in used English and Buginese Bone focused on the shift of honorifics due to the promotion as a government officer. This was comparative study between English and Buginese language in respect someone in order to highlight the social status and rank of job and to show respect and to dignify social status. This research used the descriptive qualitative method while the English data were obtained through the English movies that are Black Widow, and The Intern, as well as the news posted at BBC news.com about people who receive awards in the form of titles while Buginese data were obtained through the participants recording and note-taking. The research result show that in English almost every year the country's leaders give royal titles to people who excel in their respective careers, and the title is recognized by the state, the title "sir" for men while "dame" if she is a woman and it put in front of their names, while Buginese Bone has hierarchical system was mention that different rank of job make different honorific and it used to respect and dignify someone’s status, this form used honorific lexemes such as tabe’, ndi’, iye’, puang, and petta cama’, beside in order to show respect in English utterances by immediately greeted by name, such as Paul, George, Clara and Jane because in English the name is more important than the title.
... The function of language is as a communication tool. Basically, the function of language is the goal that we achieve by speaking, for example stating, asking, responding, greeting, saying farewell and so on (Sain, et al.,2020). Language becomes diverse and varied not only because the speakers are not homogeneous, but also because the social interaction activities carried out are very diverse. ...
... In data (15) there are fragments of sentences spoken by the character Yu Ning to the mothers in the film. This subtle satire means that gossiping mothers are like journalists who are busy taking care of and highlighting other people's lives. ...
This study analyzes expressive speech acts in the short film Tilik by Wahyu Agung Prasetyo. The purpose of this study is to describe the types and functions of expressive speech contained in the short film Tilik. This research uses descriptive qualitative analysis method. The data were obtained by watching, recording, classifying, analyzing and concluding the results. The data analysis, the researcher classified the data based on the type and function of the speech act by applying the expressive speech act theory proposed by John Rogers Searle and the supporting theory “SPEAKING” proposed by Dell Hymes to analyze the data. The results of this research is found six types of speech acts, namely expressive speech acts of blaming, insinuating, complaining, praising, apologizing, and thanking. The conclusion of this research is that expressive speech acts are part of illocutionary speech acts which different functions according to the speech have spoken by the speaker.
... As has Fishman noted (cited in Djamereng, 2012), language sustainability is related to language change and language use on the one hand and to psychological, social, and cultural processes on the other in multi-language communities. One factor in language shift and sustainability is perceived helplessness of immigrant minority speakers in sustaining their language in competition with a dominant majority language (Sain, et al., 2020) Evidence cited here indicates that the perceived strength and self-efficacy of the Konjo community circumvents many of the tensions of this linguistic competition. While the demography factors discussed above indicate no significant relationship between demography and EV in the heterogeneous setting, community members do note that their language behaviors differ in these settings, although they do not cite any sense of threat to their language's vitality. ...
The maintenance of an ethnic language in a multilingual setting depends on many factors, and it is including language vitality. This study examines the vitality of the Konjo language in South Sulawesi. By demonstrating the ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) theory, this descriptive study examines Konjo language vitality in two contexts: ethnically homogeneous and ethnically heterogeneous areas in Bulukumba Regency. In the homogenous area, status, demographic, and institutional support are factors to contribute to the EV of Konjo. However, in the heterogeneous area, demographic factors contribute little while status and institutional support contribute to the maintenance of the language. The result of this study shows that the sheer number of Konjo community members distributed throughout the heterogeneous area is not sufficient for language maintenance. Nevertheless, Konjo EV remains high overall because of the community’s strong cultural and ethnic identification with their heritage language..
