Abstract
The language of Indonesian politics is quite interesting. There are many phenomena of language abuse such as language manipulation and meaning reduction, which often occur. This research is meant to find 1) the form of the polity register, 2) the kinds of meaning polity register and 3) the characteristics of the polity register. Dealing with the research method, the writer applies qualitative method. The writer takes the data from the Indonesian newspaper “Suara Merdeka” which contains register polity. She collects the data by reading, scrutinizing, and listing them. To analyze the data, the writer uses semantic analysis based on Poedjosoedarmo theory to determine the changing meaning of the register. Having analyzed the data, the writer finds two forms of polity register namely: word and phrase. The words are in the form of simple word (26, 7%), compound word (26, 7%), and complex word (24, 4%), abbreviation and blended, each has 2,2%. In the form of phrase (17, 8%) Related to the meaning, the writer finds five kinds of changing meaning, namely: narrower than the real meaning (8, 9%), share some features whereas each of them has different meaning (24, 5%), identical to the real meaning (13,3%), and different from the real meaning (53,3%). Meanwhile, the Language styles of Indonesian polity register are euphemism (57,7%), metaphor (6,7%), hyperbola (13,3%), and metonymy (22,2%). The result of this research shows that the biggest amount of the register meaning of the Indonesian polity is different from the real meaning and tends to be euphemism. Those phenomena indicate that the polity register used by Indonesian politician tends to hide the real meaning. These may happen since there are some interests behind the Indonesian polity register, among others are to maintain and to retain power. In sum, the register is used to keep the authority goes on.
Highlights
People as zoon politicons always need to do interaction
It is clear that compound word category is the biggest number found (31,1%). It means that the politician often use compound word in their speech
For the classification based on the meaning category, the table shows that there are 4 meanings in polity registers namely: the register meaning is narrower than the real meaning: 4 terms (8,8%), the register meaning is identical with the real meaning: 6 terms (13,3%), the register meaning and the real meaning share some of the feature whereas has different meaning: 11 terms (24,4%), and the register meaning is different from the real meaning: 24 terms (53,3%)
Summary
People as zoon politicons always need to do interaction. Nobody can interact with others without language. People may use many kinds of language variation, which reflects changes in situational factor, such as addresses, setting, and topic. Every language has a different style, which depends on many factors, for example: dialect, social status, idiolect, area, oral & written text, creating words system and new expression (Nababan in Sutopo, 1997: 70). It is obvious that language style influences the language use. People utilize the specific vocabulary associated with different occupational groups or people‟s understanding
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